Research Articles
Why You Love That Cozy Chair: Your Stone-Age Brain is the Designer
Explore how our ancient evolutionary instincts shape modern design preferences, from architecture to digital interfaces.
More Than "Survival of the Fittest": The Surprising Engine of Evolution
Explore the biological principles and threshold concepts of natural selection through the classic peppered moth experiment and modern evolutionary biology tools.
The Playful Puppy and the Serious Scientist: What Animal Games Tell Us About Evolution
Exploring the evolutionary significance of play behavior in animals and its crucial role in brain development and social skills.
The Paraphyly Controversy: When Our Classifications Split Evolutionary Families
Exploring the fundamental debate in biology about how we classify evolutionary families and the challenges of balancing scientific accuracy with practical communication.
Mind at a Crossroads: How Beliefs Shape Our Learning of Life's Story
Exploring how creationist beliefs impact learning of evolutionary biology in classrooms, with research findings and educational strategies.
The Mind-Reading Machine: How Our Social Brains Became Fortune Tellers
Explore how the evolution of social predictive brains transformed humans into master forecasters of social interactions through theory of mind and cognitive development.
Parasitology Year 2000: A Vision for a Holistic Future
Exploring how the 1995 vision for parasitology has shaped modern research, from evolutionary studies to drug discovery and conservation.
Scientific Consensus and Social Controversy: When Facts Clash With Beliefs
Exploring the gap between scientific consensus on evolution and climate change and public understanding, with insights from educational research.
What is Life? A Philosopher's Guide to Biology's Biggest Questions
Explore the intersection of biology and philosophy through key concepts, experiments, and tools that help us understand life's deepest mysteries.
The "Why" Trap: How Our Need for Purpose Clashes with Evolution
Exploring how our teleological thinking conflicts with understanding evolution, and how education can bridge this gap.