Oct 10, 2022

What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren

Jan 14, 2021

Atlas Hugged and the Nature of Fiction, with Brian Boyd

We discuss Atlas Hugged and Brian's biography-in-progress of the legendary philosopher of science, Karl Popper, who pioneered the study of epistemology from an evolutionary perspective.

Jan 14, 2021

Atlas Hugged and Our Moment of Choice, with Kurt Johnson

Kurt Johnson wears many hats--a distinguished evolutionary biologist, a leader of the Interspiritual Movement, an authority on the scientific career of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov

Jan 14, 2021

Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten

David Korten is the renowned futurist, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning among many other books, founder of YES! Magazine, and a prominent member of the Club of Rome.

Nov 2, 2020

Human Nature at Work with Andrew O'Keeffe

TVOL guest host Max Beilby talks with Andrew O'Keeffe about his work helping leaders make better sense of the human dimension of their role, so that they can work with, rather than against, human nature.

Nov 2, 2020

The Study of Nature in Early America: A Conversation with Lee Dugatkin

Darwin was an integral part of the Enlightenment and was avidly pursued by early Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and the portrait artist Charles Willson Peale, who created the most famous museum of the Revolutionary era.

Nov 2, 2020

Managing the Human Animal, with Nigel Nicholson and Max Beilby

Max Beilby and Nigel Nicholson discuss the application of evolutionary psychology to the world of business and management.

Sep 2, 2020

Cultural Evolution with Alex Mesoudi

In the last 30 years, evolutionary theory has undergone explosive growth in studying humans as a fundamentally cultural species.

Sep 2, 2020

[BONUS] Robert Kurzban On the Modular Mind

In this bonus archive episode, David talks with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban.

Aug 16, 2020

Positive Deviance as the Third Way: A Conversation with David K. Hurst

Positive Deviance has been used to prevent child malnourishment in Vietnam, female circumcision in Egypt, and even improve an American pharmaceutical company's outreach to doctors.

Aug 16, 2020

A Tale of Two Evolutionary Processes, with Rita Colwell

Rita Colwell pioneered the study of microbial ecology and genetics and served as Director of the National Science Foundation during 1998-2004.

Aug 10, 2020

The Third Way of Entrepreneurship with Victor Hwang

Aug 9, 2020

Peter J. Richerson: Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective

Aug 4, 2020

[BONUS EPISODE] Geoffrey Hodgson on Evolutionary Thinking and Its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism

Hodgson's research has applications to the understanding of organizations, organizational change, innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development.

Aug 2, 2020

Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective with Simon Blackburn

David discusses morality from an evolutionary perspective with analytic philosopher Simon Blackburn.

Jul 30, 2020

The Nordic Third Way with Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun

The Nordic countries are identified as exemplars of good governance and the Third Way.

Jul 13, 2020

Ecosystems are Probably Not What You Think: A Conversation with Tom Whitham

What are ecosystems? Do they achieve some kind of balance in their natural state? Do they evolve in a way that can't be explained by the evolution of their component species? I take a deep dive with Tom Whitham into territory that is controversial even among the experts.

Jul 6, 2020

Development and the Third Way with Scott Peters

Jun 29, 2020

The Third Way in the Internet Age with Tim O’Reilly

Jun 22, 2020

Smart Cities and the Third Way with Dan O'Brien

Urban planning represents one kind of positive change effort that has suffered from excessive reliance on laissez-faire in some instances and centralized planning in other instances.

Jun 15, 2020

Libertarianism and the Third Way

Jun 15, 2020

Science as a Moral System with Robert T. Pennock

Jun 11, 2020

Economics, Public Policy, and the Third Way

Jun 4, 2020

Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance

Geoffrey Hodgson, a scholar of economics and the social sciences, explains how both forms of national governance fail in their pure forms.

May 24, 2020

Pragmatism and the Third Way with Trygve Throntveit

May 23, 2020

Evolving the Future of Corporations: A Conversation with Toby Shannan

A major corporation is teaming up with evolutionary scientists to help achieve its laudable goals and provide a model for other corporations.

May 5, 2020

Tightening and Loosening Up for the Coronavirus Pandemic with Michele Gelfand

TVOL's first podcast with Michele Gelfand explored an axis of cultural variation from "tight" (strong norms, strongly enforced) to "loose" (tolerant of individual differences).

Apr 26, 2020

Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh

Mar 28, 2020

Evolutionary Mismatch in the Workplace with Mark van Vugt and Max Beilby

Mar 6, 2020

PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A Conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass

Feb 26, 2020

Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A Conversation About Primate Societies with Joan Silk

Jan 29, 2020

Dugnad as Part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk

Oct 21, 2019

Peter Gray on Education as a Biological Phenomenon, Learning from Hunter-Gatherers, and Letting Children Lead

Oct 21, 2019

Lynette Shaw on Social Constructionism and Finding Academic Common Ground

Oct 21, 2019

Elliott Sober on the Origins of Multilevel Selection

Oct 20, 2019

Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures