(R)evolutionary Biology

David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington; his most recent book is Through a Glass Brightly: Using science to see our species as we really are (Oxford University Press), 2018.

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  Jul 14, 2015
  

  Why Everybody Should Be Familiar with Tycho Brahe's Blunder

  by (R)evolutionary Biology

  It helps explain why people deny climate change, resist the theory of evolution, and embrace the theology of anti-vaxxers.
  

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  May 16, 2015
  

  It's Madness to Keep on Developing Nuclear Weapons, so Why Do We?

  by (R)evolutionary Biology

  It's because our Stone Age brain finds it hard to think straight about weapons whose mass destruction we find it almost impossible to fathom.