Evolution

Monkey business

Humans are more than just apes

Unlike chimps, we have an alarming willingess to believe what we’re told

Jonathan Leaf

What Charles Darwin got wrong

High among David Stove’s antipathies was irrationality in the philosophy of science

Roger Kimball

A trip through plants and their chemicals

Noah Whiteman’s Most Delicious Poison explores how humans have used plants for centuries

Katrina Gulliver

Saying yes slowly is what’s hampering progress today

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley reviewed

Rory Sutherland

Books

Is the threat of capital punishment really the foundation of good behavior?

The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us More and Less Violent by Richard Wrangham reviewed

Paul Levy