This View of Life
Magazine

Evolutionary theory is an untapped tool for creating and operating sustainable environments that meet the needs of the people who live, work and play within them.

A simple, but powerful law, The Law of Effect, suggests that organisms tend to repeat the successful behaviors they perform and to refrain from repeating the unsuccessful ones.

Evolution by natural selection is much more than just a hypothesis, and is as much a valid and well-accepted scientific theory as the theory of gravitation.

If you could change one aspect of your life during 2016, what would make you the happiest? Imagine yourself on December 31, 2016 looking back with satisfaction on 2016. What would it be? Standard economics has an answer.

The evolutionary perspective has been useful in every aspect of my research and thinking in psychology and related fields.

It is easy to imagine modern society falling apart due to the collapse of truth-telling norms. Nevertheless, thinking about norms from an evolutionary perspective provides grounds for hope.

Evolution may not have programmed us to care about advantageous inequity, but we have developed the cognitive and moral wherewithal to do so.

Evolutionary theory offers a remarkably rich and beautiful story about how we came to be, but as of yet this story has not been told compellingly enough to reach beyond the halls of academia.

Universes might evolve to be ‘selfish’—that is, as if they were interested in propagating their own kind—just as biological organisms act as if they were interested in spreading their own genes.

Seven take-home points helping guide us from early forefathers to today’s dads.

At the heart of Kevin Laland's new book is a “cultural drive” mechanism, whereby selection for accurate, efficient information transmission shaped the evolution of the primate brain and intelligence.