This View of Life
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Gossip is highly moral, sophisticated, and sensitive to context. Can we use this to improve our communication online and in society at large?

What can sports teach us about evolution?

Throughout evolutionary history, humans have had to deal with risk. Risk-sensitivity theory offers an explanation about when some people take excessive risks, and why.

Tobias Uller's projects revolve around the idea that plasticity – that is, environmental effects on phenotypes – can initiate and direct evolutionary diversification.

What can groundhogs teach us about our fake news epidemic?

In 1959, Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut began what would come to be one of the longest-running experiments in biology. For the last 58 years they have been domesticating silver foxes and studying evolution in real time. But in 1952, seven years before this experiment began, Belyaev initiated a pilot study to determine whether or not his audacious ideas about domestication merited a full-fledged experiment. Here we tell that story.

From an evolutionary view, Andy Murray's recent Wimbledon win, after a three year slump since his last win in 2013, was surprising for two reasons: his marriage to Kim Sears in 2015 and the birth of his daughter, Sophia, in February this year.

EI’s belief is that by better understanding the stumbling blocks that can impede today’s learning process, we can further inspire solutions that minimize such barriers.

Can businesses do well by doing good? Yes, according to this report headed by EI President David Sloan Wilson. The report provides a much needed alternative to the “Greed is Good” philosophy of orthodox economic theory, which has dominated the curriculum of business schools for over 50 years.