This View of Life
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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.

Scientists have found that wild ravens make gestures, a feat even most primates can’t manage.

How do you explain homosexuality?

The new work supports Darwin’s original claim that all pigeon breeds descend from the rock pigeon.

Genome sequencing supports theory that all domestic breeds descend from wild rock dove.