This View of Life
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Religious cooperation extends to alloparenting and that higher levels of cooperation among religious mothers can help to explain their higher fertility.

The United States is the deadliest wealthy country in the world. Can science help us explain, or even solve, our national crisis?

An insightful interview with Athena Aktipis on cancer research from an evolutionary perspective.

It is possible for people to be highly knowledgeable and reject evolution for reasons beyond evidence. When that happens, it is important to listen in order to understand why so we can bridge those gaps.

The relationship between inter-group violence and within-group cooperation is one that seems endemic across human societies, and it continues to be given greater attention by a range of scientists.

A fossil search out West brings amateur paleontologist Randall Wehler and his brother to a quarry in Wyoming that held former inhabitants of the land and water during the late Cretaceous period of history when dinosaurs still reigned supreme.A fossil search out West brings amateur paleontologist Randall Wehler and his brother to a quarry in Wyoming that held former inhabitants of the land and water during the late Cretaceous period of history when dinosaurs still reigned supreme.

Understanding how we got to our modern world is the critical first step in showing us where we are heading; a new article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers new answers to these critical questions, taking a systematic, scientific look at how complex societies from around the world have developed over the last 10,000 years.

I am appreciative of all the authors who offered their advice. To me, this series effuses a sense of community that I have not found elsewhere.