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Smart cities allow a comparison of laissez-faire, centralized planning, and the Third Way of entrepreneurship and all other forms of positive social change.

How and why the volume of the orbital prefrontal cortex is related to the size of social networks.

Scientists have discovered a possible evolutionary explanation for the placebo effect with new evidence.

The first evidence for the evolutionary basis for the obesity epidemic and the increased prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes.

A new study shows fossilized proof that feathered dinosaurs ate Mesozoic birds.

Dispute breaks out over the extent to which chimps cooperate.

Scientists discover stem cells that give rise to consciousness.

The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought.

A mathematical model to explain the evolution of anti-bully sentiment, or “egalitarian drives” within groups.

Like humans and chimpanzees, communities of orangutans have different traditions.

Greater Good interviews Johnathan Haidt in the wake of the 2012 U.S. presidential election and asks: how can a divided electorate move forward?

The menopause evolved, in part, to prevent competition between a mother and her new daughter-in-law.