The Human Instinct: A Conversation with Ken Miller
Too many people think evolution demeans our species. But maybe evolutionary theory indicates the opposite: our special place among life on Earth.
April 30th, 2018
evolution
January 01st, 2018
With Your Smartphone, Fear is Never Far Away
Ancient Man might have liked a smartphone. Our cave-dwelling ancestor would have wanted to know whether a storm was coming or if his friends had spotted a herd of predators nearby.
November 14th, 2017
Help You Help Me
Reputation is the oil that lubricates social interactions.
September 21st, 2017
How Can Evolutionary Psychology Help Explain Intimate Partner Violence?
At some point in their lifetime, 10 to 35 percent of people experience intimate partner violence. Why is violence such a pervasive feature of human relationships?
August 17th, 2017
Rationalizing the “Irrational”
When we examine objectives from an evolutionary biology perspective, we see that what appears irrational might simply be a misunderstanding on our part of what someone’s objectives are.
July 07th, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Cognitive Control
Reasoning, problem-solving, symbolic language, planning—these faculties are fundamental to virtually all of our individual and societal accomplishments.
December 09th, 2013
Art: A Tail or a Song?
In his new book, The Aesthetic Brain, Anjan Chatterjee utilizes neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to explore three critical questions in the field of aesthetics: What is beauty? What is pleasure? What is art?
