BY DAVID SLOAN WILSON, MEL ANDREWS, MAXIMUS THALER If you had a conventional biological education, then you were taught that evolution is not a conscious process. Giraffes that stretch to reach high foliage do not mysteriously cause their offspring to be taller. Instead, their offspring are both taller and shorter and it is differences in […]

This is not a Schelling simulation. by hanzi freinacht In our days, there is a lot of talk about chaos and complexity. And it’s not just buzz and academic fashion—as some commentators have claimed—but a real development that has bearings on pretty much all the sciences. When it comes to understanding society, you have the

White nationalists attack riot police in central London. by robert cobbold One of the hallmarks of evolutionary thinking is the ability to see past seemingly intractable differences towards a higher-level integration. Hegel called this thesis, antithesis and synthesis and used it to describe what he called the dialectic of history. Ken Wilber calls it differentiation