This View of Life
Magazine
This View of Life is an interdisciplinary magazine and academic journal dedicated to exploring the application of evolutionary science across all aspects of human life.

A healthy dose of a few selfish individuals in a community of altruistic individuals can benefit the whole group.

We thought humans only have culture. We were wrong.

Welcome to the Evolution Institute’s new website, your portal to understanding and improving the human condition.


Complexity and the Art of Public Policy is a milestone in the application of scientific knowledge to problem solving in the real world.


Painful and extreme rituals may enhance social cohesion.

A sizable amount of publically available data exists that organizes and quantifies Bigfoot sightings.

I've got a theory, of course. It's not because cyclists are annoying.

Researchers studying brain scans of inmates find a possible link to risks of future criminal behavior.

A field cannot be more lost than to be clueless on its most important issues.Economists are divided on both fiscal and monetary policy, the most important economic issues of the day. The divide is on the direction of policy, not on some detail.

Times have changed for the study of human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, thanks in part to his pioneering spirit.
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