Essay

We assume that team players aren’t selfish—as the saying goes, there’s no “I” in team. But actually, there’s plenty of “I” in team. We can be intensely selfish on behalf of our team.

First, what is there in the external world that strikes us as sound? Second, what is happening in the internal world underneath the skull that creates this sensation?

We are in the early stages of what I think historians will one day call religion’s “Evidential Reformation.”

Let’s look at an example of how science understands sacred scripture by taking a closer look at historical criticism of the New Testament.

We are immersed in seas of waves—not just of the light and sound that please our perceptions, but many more to which our senses don’t respond.

How should we read these ancient narratives today?

Join scientists and artists as they “ponder the aesthetics of evolution” at a free public event in New York City on February 25.

2012 promises to be a pivotal year for proponents of group selection and multi-level selection theory.

Like the soul of religions, energy is never recognized in its unclad glory; it manifests itself in different garbs. There is heat and light and motion, sound and electricity, too. All these are energy of one kind or another.