This View of Life
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Social competition and sexual selection have shaped human instincts for showing off our mental traits.Social competition and sexual selection have shaped human instincts for showing off our mental traits (e.g. intelligence. personality traits, moral virtues) to mates, rivals, friends, peers, and other groups. In modern capitalism, such trait-display instincts are channeled mostly into educational credentialism, workaholic careerism, and runaway consumerism, with often harmful effects on environments, societies, families, and fertility patterns.

The Last Glacial Maximum impacted ecosystems and drove many species to extinction.

We trust people based as much on how they look, how similar to us, than other factors, but our perception of looks can vary with social interaction.

A celebration of well-argued and thoroughly researched but completely incorrect evolutionary theory.

The implications that the empathy problem has for ethical behavior within firms.I address the implications that the empathy problem has for ethical behavior within firms, particularly engendering sufficient trust to facilitate the use of modern institutional mechanisms that, in turn, affect firm, industry, and social evolution.

What happens when 15,000 pounds of elephant encounters early humans? Dinner, of course.

The allure of evolutionary psychology for the dating world.

Four of the six families of scorpionflies that once lived on Earth died out before the Oligocene Epoch 33 million years ago, leaving us with the two families that exist today. Dr. Archibald has discovered the first specimens of one of those missing families, and dubbed it Eorpidae.

Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.