This View of Life
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Research indicates that when sacred values and fused identities combine they create a potent mix.

Evolution: This View of Life’s Education Editor Gabrielle Principe talks with WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane on Radio Times about an evolutionarily informed approach to educating and rearing children. In the effort to give kids a leg up in life, parents bombard them with educational toys, rush them to chess, fencing, and piano lessons, and place them in preschool programs that stress academics in the earliest years.

What can an aspiring economist do to acquire an education in Evonomics on their own?

Can variation and selection within a lifetime be thought of evolutionarily?

“Zoom fatigue” and “touch starvation” have evolutionary origins that researchers need to take seriously.

Humans have evolved to favor their in-groups, but who is considered part of the in-group can change across cultures, contexts, and the life course.

Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize by creating a database of common-pool resource groups from a very diffuse literature. Can we do the same for business development?

Only by understanding the psychology of sacred values can we predict the willingness to sacrifice for those values.

Democracy will live or die depending on its ability to respond to twenty-first-century hazards.

The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a simple reminder that the success of Homo sapiens has been essentially a cooperative enterprise.

How and why did humans become collectively configured around an economic system that places them at odds with the planetary boundaries of the Earth?

Many social and personal problems are adaptive in the evolutionary sense of the word, but what if we could manage the process of personal evolution?