In pursuit of our mission, I teamed up with Baba Brinkman on his off-broadway show called Ingenious Nature. Baba is a rapper/actor who has an incredible gift for communicating evolutionary science to the general public using the art of rap. >>Read More

Indeed, we might suspect that their ancient origins and the universal spread of art behaviors, along with the interest and deep satisfaction to which such behaviors give rise, indicate that they are a touchstone of our biologically-framed and culturally-inflected human nature >>Read More

Some folks who are “tone-deaf” musically might be a little hard-of-hearing emotionally too. A new study of people with amusia – the inability to properly process music – revives an old Darwinian hypothesis linking music and language to a common evolutionary origin. >>Read More

Why are Wilson and his followers in search of a unified theory of everything, a single way to understand human knowledge? >>Read More

Science-Art Nature, a group with one of the shortest and most elegant mission statements I’ve ever read, wants to see if today’s generation in the burgeoning field of science-art can do better than a line-up of sexist apes or evolution-via-soda. >>Read More

"But," Tanaka asks, "what if this divide between literary intellectuals and physical scientists were more than just a clash of cultures?" >>Read More

I recently had a chance to do a Q & A with my long-time editor, colleague, and friend Alice Andrews. Alice teaches psychology at SUNY New Paltz and is the author of Trine Erotic—the first and, to my knowledge only, novel that so prominently features evolutionary psychology as its subject matter. >>Read More