Samuel Jay Keyser on why repetition enchants the mind, and what evolution has to do with it.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Sep 18
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.
Philip Kitcher | Sep 2
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
Telmo Pievani | Aug 12
An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival.
Peter Watts | May 13, 2024
Some human social constructs like gender are viewed erroneously in an evolutionary context. It’s time for our understanding of a person’s self-identity to evolve.
Prosanta Chakrabarty | Sep 1, 2023
How do organisms that are so sedentary end up being so incredibly widely dispersed?
Thom van Dooren | Mar 20, 2023
If protolanguages began as largely gestural systems, why and how did vocalization become so important?
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny | Dec 24, 2022
From the nucleus of each cell to the architecture of our organs, the human body bears the traces and wounds of a long and contrasting evolutionary history.
Telmo Pievani | Nov 17, 2022
Two leading voices in evolutionary consciousness science explore the subject through words and images.
Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka | Jun 24, 2022
Urbanization and the spread of artificial light are transforming life for all of earth's species, bringing about a host of unintended consequences.
Christopher Preston | Nov 19, 2019