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Biology, Politics, and the Emerging Science of Human Nature | Science
Like Aristotle, we believe that the study of human nature should lie at the intersection of politics and biology.
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Pace Layering
In the apparent contradictions of pace civilization finds its surest health.
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Panarchy
Two kinds of connections are critical in creating and sustaining adaptive capability: revolt and remembrance.
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David Ellerman on Adaptive Landscapes
If evolution is driving you higher and higher on the hill of fitness: What do you do if you are on the wrong hill?
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David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection | HuffPo
Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
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Panarchy and Pace in the Big Back Loop
What can we learn by mapping these two metaphors against each other?
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Evolution and the Ethical Brain | Templeton Foundation
Jonathan Haidt: Just as we have five different kinds of taste buds, my research suggests there are at least five different kinds of or sets of moral intuitions that we can identify.
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Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution | Science
One of the book's more serious messages is that ecology and evolution are so intertwined that neither can be understood without considering the other.
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Tom Atlee: Evolutionary Activism
We are the first species to know we are part of the Great Story of evolution. We are the first species to know that we could go extinct. And, most importantly, we are the first species to know that we could prevent that extinction by doing certain things.
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Richerson and Boyd: Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force | NYT
For the last 20,000 years or so, people have inadvertently been shaping their own evolution.
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Allan Schmid: Social Learning, Evolution, and Emergence
People learn to see things as variables that they once took as part of nature. They change their expectations and imaginations of the future and the possible.
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