This View of Life
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What novel insights can evolutionary approaches provide about human morality? What novel insights can evolutionary approaches provide about human morality? Jonathan Haidt describes his work and inspirations for understanding six universal moral foundations and the ecstasy of self-transcendence (transpersonal identification) common in religious and spiritual experiences.

A new study describes two new species of Crocodilians that lived in Panama when it was still an island during the Miocene Epoch twenty million years ago, long before it connected North and South America.

Scientists have found that wild ravens make gestures, a feat even most primates can’t manage.

How do you explain homosexuality?

The new work supports Darwin’s original claim that all pigeon breeds descend from the rock pigeon.

Genome sequencing supports theory that all domestic breeds descend from wild rock dove.

Research in recent years has finally revealed the genius of dogs.

The symbiotic relationship between Obama and Christie and in nature.

Recent projects that exemplify an emerging revolution in how we interact with and understand a dynamic and complex planet.

What excites paleontologists just as much as finding a nice, old dinosaur skeleton? Finding a nice, old dinosaur dung heap, of course.

Drug-producing plants easier to spot with a knowledge of evolutionary history.

Darwin still had time to puzzle out a mystery that would continue to plague biologists for hundreds of years: how did such a large mammal get to an island so far out to sea? Even more perplexing: how did it become the only one that did?