Peter Whybrow: UCLA David Geffen School of MedicineDr. Whybrow poses the question, “Are we Americans becoming the first addicts of the technological age?†Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied in the world’s most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity, and time urgency are […]
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Jeffrey Davis: California State University Long Beach Department of SociologyFisher is widely known for his extraordinary contributions to population genetics and evolutionary biology. His sociological insights have received far less attention, even though five of the twelve chapters of The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection are devoted to developing a theory of the evolutionary consequences […] |
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Chris Guzelian: Searle Scholar, Northwestern University School of LawEvidence increasingly suggests that selection between competing ideas to become a prevailing social belief may be strongly influenced by evolutionarily descended limitations on human sensory and mental capabilities. Scholars posit that these limitations permit many "selfish" ideas to gain social traction and spread epidemically, driving out and […] |
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Joseph Campos: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyThere is a fascinating paradox about fear of heights in humans and some animal species. Such fear has enormous biological adaptive value, represents a true life-span emotional reaction, and constitutes one of the strongest and most reliably-elicited fears in the human. As such, one would expect fear of heights […] |
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