This View of Life
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Decolonization not only requires greater inclusion of marginalized knowers, but it also requires that systems are put in place that enable and fund Indigenous-led and conceptualized research and policy-making processes.

Google Earth technology for looking at cells.

A new discovery by Matt Friedman at Oxford University is providing paleontologists with clues to the flatfish’s seemingly unsolved history.

A modern understanding of human cultural evolution reveals the conventional laissez-faire view of entrepreneurship as too simple.

Researchers increasingly seek to examine the evolution of complex political, economic, and social systems from many perspectives, yet politicians and others may be tempted to reduce dynamic systems to one or two variables.

Both liberal and conservative narratives about regulation are like prisons that confine reasonable people to predetermined choices. A new narrative based on the biological concept of regulation can set us free. Regulation is one of the most charged words in politics. If you’re a conservative, then you’re likely to think that regulation is a bad thing that erodes personal responsibility and prevents the free enterprise system from working its magic.

People consistently chose to be vengeful or kind, with little in between, the researchers found.

Disease-causing pathogens–viruses, bacteria and protists–have geographies, both in terms of where they can be found and how common they are within those regions.

The new theory provides a physical foundation for general evolution dynamics.

The evolutionary reason behind humans' persistence of play well into adulthood.

The core idea is to use insights from biology and evolution to tackle an empirical challenge we face in the real worldThe Natural Security project uses similar evolutionary principles to offer a fresh perspective on our understanding of security threats, as well as to design effective responses to those threats. While evolution may seem to be a simplistic paradigm, especially applied to complex issues such as human conflict, this simplicity is its power.

Dawkins himself calls Agren's book "the most thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered...he gets it right."