This View of Life
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How evolutionary psychology helps us teach our children better. Evolutionary developmental psychologist maintain that evolutionary psychological theory should be regarded as an overarching framework for studying the ways in which youngsters’ developing cognitive and social skills may be adaptive or maladaptive in school environments.

Life 7,500 years ago included an ability and willingness to help and sustain the chronically ill and handicapped.

Toddlers seem to know the difference between a whiner and somebody who is justifiably upset.

Life is more than the lucky product of a stew of elements; biology is more than complex chemistry.

New science reveals the multiple intelligences of mankind’s best friend.

Recent scientific efforts are bringing us closer to an understanding of the earliest life on Earth, and to the fielding of a theory that explains the dawn of our earliest ancestor.The cases of the earliest discovered evidences for life on Earth, if biological in origin, constrain the timing for the emergence of life to sometime before 3.4 billion years ago.

The most spectacular mutation in recent human history.

A strange example of co-operative behaviour in arachnids.

Science is supposed to challenge this type of quasi-mystical subjective experience, to provide an antidote to it.

A very real phylogeny of the very fake Pokémon creatures.

The biggest creatures to ever walk the Earth had brains smaller than ours.

Rand's mistake was in essentializing the distinction between "individualist freedom" vs. "collectivist tyranny" and then transporting it into our human past.