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In my last post I asked how a society that evolves through its ideas would differ from one that evolves through its genes. Today I came acr...

For much of the history of life, evolution worked a certain way. Organisms competed for the chance to reproduce. An individual with an adv...

Why do attempted murderers get less jail time than murderers? Why is a drunken driver who hits a tree punished less than one who hits a per...

First of all, a personal triumph: I've had my first academic paper accepted! "A New Phylogenetic Diversity Measure Generalizing the...

This post is also taken from the excellent Evolutionary Dynamics course taught by Martin Nowak at Harvard. The progression of HIV in the hu...

I'm currently taking an amazing class offered by the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard. The goal of the course (and t...