This View of Life
Magazine

Over forty top scientists discuss the topic of cultural evolution.

Abraham Lincoln may fairly be described as post-Christian.

he new and highly controversial discipline cliodynamics is the most recent attempt to transform history into science.

Can examining how inequality began in a hunter-gatherer society teach us how to fairly share the costs and consequences of how we use diminishing natural resources?

The more equal men and women became, the less emphasis men placed on youth and beauty, and the less emphasis women put on wealth and power.

When do orangutans start to form ideas about their world—specifically, how and when to use certain tools?

Social behaviors have been acted on by natural selection.

What he believes evolutionary biology offers moral philosophy.

Perceived menace makes people kinder to their kin but nastier to outsiders.

Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo or Charles Darwin, he argues.

What novel insights can evolutionary approaches provide about human morality? What novel insights can evolutionary approaches provide about human morality? Jonathan Haidt describes his work and inspirations for understanding six universal moral foundations and the ecstasy of self-transcendence (transpersonal identification) common in religious and spiritual experiences.

A new study describes two new species of Crocodilians that lived in Panama when it was still an island during the Miocene Epoch twenty million years ago, long before it connected North and South America.