10.15.12 The Roots of Human Aggression Guest Post, Being Human Humans are more often at peace than at war; we cooperate more than we conflict. In fact, there is mounting evidence that cooperation may be acentral facet in explaining our success as a species.
09.25.12 Against Animal Natures: An Anthropologist’s View Guest Post, Being Human To understand the behavior of nonhuman animals, then, scientists nowadays may look for the expression of stable individual personality traits...
08.19.12 Lying Guest Post, Being Human We like people who don’t lie; we feel they’re trustworthy. But perhaps life is not that simple, not that black and white.
06.24.12 Emotions Being Human Why would we have evolved emotional responses? What are emotions really good for?