This View of Life
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The Daily Show reveals the stupidity behind attacks on science.

Evidence that a person’s religious action shapes how others perceive him or her can help us better understand why we see such impressive forms of religious devotion the world over.

This epilogue provides key references for you to deepen your knowledge, including the academic literature, a rapidly expanding genre of books accessible to the general reader, and authoritative online content.

We can find a path to moral consensus by focusing on our shared concerns for people’s welfare, rather than contentious and divisive moral principles.

Storytelling may help to solve problems of co-ordination in hunter-gatherer societies in order to promote cooperation.

Universal moral intuitions are like anchors, invisible from the surface but immovably secured to the seabed, whereas culturally prevalent moral norms are like buoys on the surface of the water, available to direct observation.

The evolutionary outlook expands the perspective of health professionals from that of mechanics to that of engineers.

Moral rigidity and its intimate link to in-group boundaries may have evolved so as to make us behave, and be seen, as trustworthy yet cautious team members in social environments mired by intergroup competition.