Mar 6, 2017

Can Cultural Evolution Help Integrate the Social Sciences?

If we combine evolution with embodiment and complexity, a coherent School of Social Sciences feels very much within reach.

Oct 21, 2015

Man Bites Dog: Cultural Evolution According to a Cultural Anthropologist

Mar 1, 2013

Dismantling The Paradigm In The Social Sciences

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics.

Feb 6, 2013

Genes Mix Faster Than Stories

Folk tales' 'DNA' shows that people would sooner have sex with strangers than tell their fables.

Jan 30, 2013

Cultural Evolution Changes Bird Song

Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract “the ladies.”

Dec 10, 2012

Culture: the Engine of Human Adaptation

Social Learning Leads to Our Greatest Achievements and Worst Errors.

Oct 11, 2012

War and Violence on the Decline in Modern Times

Political Scientist Joshua Goldstein and Psychologist Steven Pinker discuss arguments on the decline of violence.

Oct 5, 2012

Amazonian tribal warfare sheds light on modern violence

New evidence reveals similarities in Amazonian and modern warfare

Sep 25, 2012

The Pace of Cultural Evolution

Empirically demonstrating the pace of cultural evolution.

Sep 15, 2012

Conflict and ‘Boom-Bust’ Explain Humans’ Rapid Evolution

What explains the extraordinarily fast rate of evolution in the human lineage over the past two million years?

Sep 9, 2012

How Culture Drove Human Evolution

Why we need to stop distinguishing cultural and biological evolution as separate.

Jul 3, 2012

Use Woofound, Learn Evolution.

It is important to note that evolution is not just about biological change.

Jun 28, 2012

On the Evolution of Human Morality (a comment on Steven Pinker)

Why do fundamentally selfish beings, which is what humans are according to the selfish gene theory, accept cultural norms that contradict their natural strivings?

Apr 21, 2012

What it Means to be Human: Evolution of Intelligence by Cooperation and Teamwork

The evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork.