over 450 Contributors
over 1000 Articles
over 100 Podcasts
World Leading Writers, Researchers, and Cocreators
Authors from 50+ countries represented
Featured Article:
The Case for Adding Darwin to Behavioral Economics
As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
Read it Here
Read the latest articles:
October 8, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Who’s in Charge Inside Your Head?
And this, in turn, leads to the question: who’s in charge of your own mind?
Read More
October 8, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
What Does It Mean to be Human?
As a new evolutionary process, however, our origin was almost as momentous as the origin of life.
Read More
October 8, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Is Inequality in Our Genes?
A forthcoming article by two economists says inequality is in our genes.
Read More
October 8, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
For Some Primates, Survival of the Nicest
Baboons, like people, really do get by with a little help from their friends.
Read More
October 8, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Is Human Nature Fundamentally Selfish or Altruistic?
Did selfishness — or sharing — drive human evolution?
Read More
October 7, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Adapted, Yes, but for Whom or What?
An alternative propositions that explain how apparent group-level altruism can evolve.
Read More
October 5, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Ayn Rand on Human Nature
Rand insists altruism is a pernicious lie that is directly contrary to biological reality. Is it?
Read More
October 5, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Amazonian tribal warfare sheds light on modern violence
New evidence reveals similarities in Amazonian and modern warfare
Read More
October 3, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Did Human Evolution Favor Individualists or Altruists?
Rand's mistake was in essentializing the distinction between "individualist freedom" vs. "collectivist tyranny" and then transporting it into our human past.
Read More
October 3, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Does Our Evolutionary History Condemn Us to Social Inequality?
Is Inequality Natural?
Read More
October 2, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
In Yakutia Russia, scientists have found what they believe to be frozen living cells from ancient mammoths.
Read More
October 2, 2012
Learn More
Learn More
The Internet Blowhard’s Favorite Phrase
Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation?
Read More
Listen to the Podcast:
April 26, 2020
Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh
Listen Now
March 6, 2020
PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A Conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass
Listen Now
February 26, 2020
Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A Conversation About Primate Societies with Joan Silk
Listen Now
January 29, 2020
Dugnad as Part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk
Listen Now
October 21, 2019
Peter Gray on Education as a Biological Phenomenon, Learning from Hunter-Gatherers, and Letting Children Lead
Listen Now
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
Special Collection
Evolutionary Science in Joyce’s Ulysses
James Joyce developed a writing technique that mirrored advances in the evolutionary science of his day and these insights are present in his novel. To explore this link, we can begin by looking at the most direct references to evolution science. Amidst the range of references to cultural figures in Ulysses, Charles Darwin makes a number of appearances, most notably in the fourteenth chapter, Oxen of the Sun.
Read MoreSearch our Entire Library
We invite you to browse the content of this website including This View of Life Magazine articles, blog posts, case studies, our podcast series, and our database of Authors, Contributors, and ProSocial Facilitators.
Explore HereSubmit your own content:
Use the link below to get in touch with us about inquiries about submitting content.
Email us at tvol@prosocial.world