This View of Life
Magazine

What makes human morality unique?

The social sciences are undergoing a second Darwinian revolution.

Dominic Johnson's new book present an new look at religion by suggesting that the same underlying scientific perspective—evolution and natural selection—can lead to a very different stance on religion from Richard Dawkins and other New Atheists.

The view of life that Charles Darwin unveiled has endless lessons to teach us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes not, but none more important that those about ourselves.

Just as the soldiers of the ‘Christmas Truce’ lived the experience of their psychological plasticity, modern behavioral scientists must give greater attention to the dynamic interaction of evolved mechanisms for war and peace, rather than studying each in exclusivity.

Unless we learn how to pivot in a different mental direction, we will experience the frightful evolutionary mismatch between human cognition and psychological peace of mind.

The current appeal of boss-less organizations may be more than just a fad; instead it probably reflects a deeper desire for the organizational structures of the past.

If we truly want to understand the processes that underlie development, we have to broaden our lens and consider both our individual development and our species development.

Muir’s experiments reveal a tremendous naiveté in the idea that creating a good society is merely a matter of selecting the “best” individuals. A good society requires members working together to create what cannot be produced alone, or at least to refrain from exploiting each other.

If an organism is a being, then so is a superorganism and the whole earth is certainly superhuman.

The Darwinian understanding of empathy consistently built from his initial hypothesis to establish an empirical framework by the mid-1960s.