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Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time

The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.

18 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

When Animals Shed Their Wings

Worker ants can sprout wings—but don’t. Ant and termite queens destroy theirs after mating. Many island birds evolve into flightlessness. Can evolution explain why?

Richard Dawkins

5 May 2022 · 7 min read

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a Powerful Anti-Racist Book. So Why Doesn’t the Left Love It?

In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed by European empires, the Western world awoke to the horrors that humans are capable of committing against those they perceived to be inferior.

Jerry Barnett

3 Oct 2021 · 14 min read

David Gelernter is Wrong About Ditching Darwin

The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.

Jerry A. Coyne

9 Sep 2019 · 11 min read

Quillette Podcast 42 – Yale Professor Nicholas Christakis on What Evolution Can Teach Us About Resolving Conflict

Jonathan Kay talks to Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, about his new book Blueprint and what evolution can teach us about overcoming conflict.

Quillette / Nicholas Christakis

5 Jul 2019 · 1 min read

Origins and Exploration—An Interview with Dr. Lewis Dartnell

One of the big questions in evolutionary biology is: what drove our evolution from tree-swinging apes to bipedal, highly intelligent homonins that went on to build civilization and inherit the world?

Logan Chipkin

30 May 2019 · 14 min read

Memes, Genes, and Sex Differences—An Interview with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams

The meme’s-eye view says that memes are selected to the extent that they have effects on the people who encounter them that keep the memes alive in the culture: tunes that get stuck in our heads, for instance, or ideas that motivate us to talk about them, spread them, or impose them on other people.

Logan Chipkin

14 May 2019 · 14 min read

A Girl’s Place in the World

Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.

William Buckner

9 May 2019 · 15 min read

From Hegemonic to Responsive Masculinity: the Transformative Power of the Provider Role

There is little evidence to justify why the provider role has been held in such low regard.

Belinda Brown

11 Apr 2019 · 11 min read

Science Denial Won’t End Sexism

We can acknowledge that male and female brains have differences in structure and function, on average, without subscribing to the belief that one sex is better than the other.

Debra Soh

11 Mar 2019 · 6 min read

The Transhumanism Revolution: Oppression Disguised as Liberation

The transhumanist perspective insists that humans have a distinctly separate mind and body, and that what happens to one need not affect the other.

Libby Emmons

11 Jul 2018 · 10 min read