🌍 Evolution

• 🌍Origins of Life

  Explore the fascinating theories behind the origins of life, delving into scientific insights and philosophical inquiries that challenge our understanding of existence.

• 🧬Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

  Evolution has evolved since Darwin, and an emerging new synthesis expands our understanding of what it is and how it functions.

• 🧬What Is Organism-Centered Evolution?

  Explore how organisms evolve beyond genetics, delving into forces like epigenetics and cultural behaviors that shape their development and adaptation.

• 🌀What Is Emergence?

  Explore the fascinating concept of emergence, where simple elements unfold into complex systems, from galaxies to societies.

• 🌍What Is Cultural Evolution?

  Explore how cultural evolution shapes societies and predicts future changes, from songbirds' trills to the spread of lactose tolerance.

• 🤝The Evolution of Cooperation

  Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena

• 🔬Is One of Biology’s Perennial Themes Ready For a Fresh Look? Alan Love on the Science of Purpose.

  University of Minnesota philosopher Alan Love studies the interplay between philosophy and biology.

• 📚Bringing the EES to the Classroom

  There’s more to inheritance than genes, and more to adaptation than selection

• 🔬Five Questions with Betül Kaçar

  Join Betül Kaçar as she explores the frontier of astrobiology and ancient DNA, shedding light on life’s cosmic journey and evolutionary constraints.

• 🌌Exploring the Big Questions with Aeon

  A new two-year project will fund dozens of essays and longform pieces published in one of the most innovative and engaging journals of science and thought.

• 🧬Hidden Depths - The ancestry of our most human emotions

  Many of the social virtues we think of as unique to modern humans may have developed far earlier than previously thought.

• 🧬Molecular insights into historical constraints on evolution

  Replaying evolution’s early days in a lab — with resurrected, billion-year-old genes

• 🔬Special Issue and Sections in ‘The New Atlantis’ Dedicated to Big Questions

  Slowing down the discourse on the meanings of today’s fast-paced technological and scientific change.

• 🤔Does Self-Giving Love Require an Evolutionary World? Evolutionary Theodicy in Light of the Mystical Tradition

  A harsh natural world may be a necessary condition for the practice of sacrificial love

• 🔬How do novel cell types arise in evolution?

  A new theory offers insight into an evolutionary puzzle

• 🌐Creating a Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

  Forming connections and framing grand questions on the links between evolutionary inheritance and cultural change