Darwin's No Help on the Origins of Greed

Nick Cohen: Financial and political leaders led us to ruin because they did not understand Keynes, not Darwin The posters outside the Natural History museum's Darwin exhibition have a wary feel.

The Man Who Found That "Genes Hold Culture on a Leash"

Edward O. Wilson looked at ants and made fundamental discoveries about humans. published online November 17, 2008 Image Flickr ragesoss One of the century's most influential scientists and thinkers, Edward O. ...

A bee extracting nectar from a flower, but some are more workshy

We have all been conned. Even the name suggests industry: the worker bumblebee is, we thought, the epitome of effort as it buzzes around, foraging for food.

Nick Cohen: Darwin's no help on the origins of greed

The posters outside the Natural History museum's Darwin exhibition have a wary feel.

Walter Block And IQ At Loyola

Libertarian Walter Block is the subject of a fuss at Baltimore's Loyola University.

Should Conservatism Be a Movement?

I meant to say something earlier about Austin Bramwell's attack on the idea of a conservative "movement." He writes: Movement conservatives have in fact produced few of the conservative ideas in general ...

Laura Vozzella: Those delicate Jesuit sensibilities

Everybody, that is, but the professor, Walter Block , who chalks up the flap to political correctness.

E. O. Wilson has not changed his position on altruism

E.O. Wilson shifts his position on altruism in nature : It is a puzzle of evolution: If natural selection dictates that the fittest survive, why do we see altruism in nature? Why do worker bees or ants, for ...

Religion: A Tool to Keep the Parasites Away?

Religion has a funny way of dividing people. But religious fervor and intolerance may also keep you from getting sick, according to evolutionary biologists Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill of the University of ...

Weapon size versus body size as a predictor of winning in fights...

Weapon size was found to be a more reliable predictor of the outcome of pairwise fights than body size.