PLoS One “Fairness Expectations and Altruistic Sharing in 15-Month-Old Human Infants“
The Chronicle of Higher Education “Raymond Tallis Takes Out the ‘Neurotrash’” Tallis has some really interesting perspectives as described by this piece. I tend to agree with him that much of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology is too simplistic and attempts to explain rather complex emotional experiences in ways that insult the subtlety of these experiences. Read More
University of Hertfordshire “Evolutionary Thinking and its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism“
The Huffington Post Evolution for Everyone “Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates” There is some really interesting clarification in this piece on the merits of thinking in terms of relative versus absolute fitness. In some ways this is just DSW trotting out his usual arguments for the equivalence of different mechanisms for Read More
Oxford University Press “The Origins of Morality — An Evolutionary Account“
Current Biology “Guarding Males Protect Females from Predation in a Wild Insect“
University of Exeter Associate Research Fellow – Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour
Slate “Libertarians with Antlers” Although I have not read this book, I can still appreciate how smart this review is. I really like how Whitfield pulls no punches on the issue of group selection: any argument for the common good is certainly group selectionist in nature. But his understanding of group selection is appropriately subtle: Read More
Social Media Classroom “Introduction to Cooperation Theory” No way to assess the quality of this course, but it is interesting that it exists. It seems to be out on the frontier of courses using only web-available content: a harbinger of things to come? I guess my only question about such a course if I were Read More
AnimalWise: A celebration of animal intelligence in its many forms
