Perspectives Article
Neuroscience and History
This article looks at neuropathology, which may shed light on the actions of individuals in power. Do leaders show a tendency to have certain neurological traits?
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Perspectives Article
Volatile Bodies, Volatile Earth: Towards an Ethic of Vulnerability
This article outlines a “microontology” of social life on Earth. This ontology attends to the majority of relations on our planet: those amongst microbes.
Perspectives Article
Contaminated Diversity in “Slow Disturbance”: Potential Collaborators for a Liveable Earth
Using the examples of matsutake mushrooms in Japan, the Meratus Dayaks of the rainforests of Kalimantan, and the “rubble ecologies” of post-war Berlin, the article argues that we must pay attention to the cultural and biological synergies through which diversity continues to emerge, even in ruins.
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“A NeoPresocratic Manifesto”
Callicott supposes that the environmental turn in the humanities, grounded in ecology and evolutionary biology, foreshadows an emerging NeoPresocratic revival in twenty-first century philosophy.
Exhibition chapter
Evolution | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Arcadia
Evolution for World Heritage: The Galapagos Islands National Park
The Galapagos Islands National Park, which was established in 1959, shelters Charles Darwin’s showcase of evolution and has become a testing field for international nature conservation concepts.
Multimedia | film profile
No Dinosaurs in Heaven
This film examines the impact of creationism on US-American public education.
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Fearless Planet
Will Gadd hosts this Discovery Channel series exploring the history and formation of some of the Earth’s extreme landscapes.
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"Darwin and Wallace as Environmental Philosophers"
This article compares the thoughts of Darwin and Wallace on human evolution and the relations between humans and the rest of nature.
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"Darwin and the Meaning in Life"
This article reaches the conclusion that, contrary to what has often been thought and recently argued, the impact of Darwin’s theory is precisely to liberate us to lead the most meaningful of lives.