Darwin's Spectre
Michael R RoseEvolutionary biology, its history, its latest discoveries, and - most importantly - its relevance for health, aging, well being, and understanding everyday life as a human being.
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Tenacious Ghosts in the Genome
Our intuition often suggests that evolution is a process of narrowing down. We commonly view Darwin’s survival of the fittest as a ruthless editor, striking out less successful genetic options until only the most specialized survivors remai...
Stop Presses: “Beyond Fixation” Published
While this video does a good job of visually evoking some hard-core science, there are two mistakes, one major and one minor. Major mistake: the A-type populations were not at zero genetic variation at all loci, though there were some pseud...
What does MARA Free Will Feel Like?
A fun discussion of the implications of Mental Arms Race Amplifier Evolution
In order to get out of my own head, I asked mediocre Artificial Intelligence (the only kind we now have) to discuss the implications of my theory of human evoluti...
Amplified Mental Arms Races Foster Free Will
The Hominid Mystery
The story of human evolution is usually told as a clean, triumphant ascent: we stood up, we made tools, and eventually we built the internet.
But to an evolutionary biologist, there is a haunting mystery at the center...
A Solution to the Scientific Problem of Free Will
This week on Darwin’s Spectre, we are going to solve the hard scientific problem of the evolution of free will in humans using the Mental Arms Race Amplifier. The “MARA” mechanism selects for the evolution of high levels of generalized inte...
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I am a Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. My mission is to apply evolutionary biology to everyday problems: aging and health, psychology and happiness, even politics and economics.
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