The Ancient Patterns of Migration
Today’s hot-button issue is actually as old as the human race.
human evolution
David Sloan Wilson: “Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World”
On this episode, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson joins Nate to unpack how evolution can be used to explain and understand modern human behavior, particularly with respect to cooperation and pro-social behavior.
Human Prehistory—Why New Discoveries About Human Origins Open Up Revolutionary Possibilities
In my opinion, the invention and subsequent development of technology was the inflection point from which humanity was to diverge towards an alternative pathway from all other life forms on Earth. We now hold the responsibility to wield this power in ways that will be beneficial and sustainable to all life.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 95 Geneen Marie Haugen
Geneen Marie Haugen, PhD, grew up as a free-range wildish kid with a run amok imagination. She is a guide to the experiential, intertwined mysteries of nature and psyche with the Animas Valley Institute. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
David Sloan Wilson on Evolutionary Science and Prosocial Behavior
“If most antisocial behaviors are locally advantageous,” writes Wilson, “and most prosocial behaviors are locally disadvantageous, then we have an enormous problem explaining the nature of prosociality, including the nature of human morality, from an evolutionary perspective.”
The Power Podcast: Episode 3 Fire, Tools, and Language
As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Excerpt
All organisms adapt to, and are shaped by, their places. There is no reason that humans should be exempt from that observation.
When More is Not Enough
Today, Peter and I discuss how dopamine, evolution, and modern culture push many of us toward a lifestyle of excess and overconsumption.
Why Are Anger and Social Violence Increasing In America?
We humans use our minds to create the world we live in, so the better we understand how our minds work, the more successful we will be in creating the world we live in….and more importantly, the world we want to create.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 73 Stephen Dinan
Stephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability. He addresses the quetion of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Our Politicians in Washington Are Behaving Like Kindergarteners on A Playground!!
We need to intentionally create a more mature and evolved collective human consciousness. And we are rapidly running out of time to do that essential work.
Evolutionary Mismatch, Partisan Politics, and Climate Change: A Tragedy in Three Acts
It is apparent that our focus should not only be on solving climate change, but should also address other planetary boundaries, and perhaps even democratic renewal, but in every case, we need the means of transitioning from an unsatisfactory system to a better one that focuses on our strengths, and mitigates against our psychological shortcomings.