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Daron Acemoglu identifies five questions that must be addressed to bring policymaking into the twenty-first century.

Daniel Dennett is not only one of the most distinguished philosophers of mind working today, he also writes great books. As he publishes his memoir, I’ve Been Thinking, he talks us through some of the books that most influenced him, including two by evolutionary biologists.

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

Philosophers have wrestled with the question of whether we are truly free to decide on our actions for centuries. Now, insights from genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology are shedding fresh light on the issue

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Today’s complex societies are pretty homogeneous, but experimental cultures, past and present, teach us how to think more creatively about the way we live

In an evolutionary eyeblink, our species has gone from hunting and gathering to living in complex societies. We need to rethink the story of this monumental transition

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

A Nobel Prize–winning economist reflects on the dire consequences of libertarian economics.

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.

There’s every indication that a better understanding of ourselves strengthens humanity as a whole and makes connection and cooperation more possible.

A vast genomic data resource sheds light on the evolution and genetic basis of unique traits of snakes.

La forma del cuerpo de estos animales siempre ha sido un misterio evolutivo. Un estudio reciente da nuevas luces sobre sus secretos.

The minds of social species are strikingly resonant

El Homo naledi, una misteriosa especie humana extinta, enterraba a sus muertos y tallaba símbolos mucho antes que los humanos modernos, según una nueva investigación realizada en el sistema de cuevas de Rising Star, en Sudáfrica.