Brian Klaas

Brian Klaas is an associate professor in global politics at University College London and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, and the host of the Power Corrupts podcast.

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Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment

By Brian Klaas

It’s easy to believe that small, chance moments don’t make a material difference on our lives and societies. But a long-running evolution experiment suggests that life’s course may come down to the random details.