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How can cooperative forms of governance overcome disruptive self-serving behaviors? The history of Freemasonry may hold the answer.

Can our species collectively cultivate the socio-cultural changes required to make our shared visions of humanistic values become real on a global scale?

Aggressive queens may be the ‘winners’ within their groups, but purely cooperative groups outlast those containing aggressive queens.

What separates us from the apes is a sequence of social and technological revolutions, one major change after the other in the life experiences of human communities. The emergence of language was one such revolution, not the last and definitely not the first.

The world appears to be tiring of the New Atheism movement, which burst upon the scene about five years ago with the so-called Four Horsemen: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

Peter Turchin discusses his new book "Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth". Ultrasociety chronicles 10,000 years of human history from an evolutionary perspective, shows how warfare paradoxically caused us to become the greatest cooperators on earth, and begins to point the way toward a future without war.

The co-editor of the #1 academic Journal in the Behavioral Sciences shares her views on Evolutionary Psychology.

The study of social Darwinism in the 19th century shows us when our inner desires are structured in a complete, totalizing, and perfect way that provides continuity and stability to the nation, this is always done at the expense of science.

Creating a truly functional, equitable, stable and sustainable nation certainly won’t be easy but a “blueprint,” can be found in our evolutionary past. What will it take? Those with the most power recognizing the realities of white supremacy, finding what’s needed to upscale this blueprint, and having the courage and vision to do so.

Religious naturalists understand that science and religion aren’t opposed ideologies, rather, both are valuable ways of thinking that allow us to navigate an immeasurably complicated world.