How weird these two-leggeds are, That they miss the point of life. Always racing toward somewhere, As if stillness were a sin, As if the world must be conquered Rather …
Mitchell Ryan Distin, PhD
Mitchell Ryan Distin, PhD
Mitchell Ryan Distin, Ph.D., is an evolutionary biologist, writer, research fellow at Prosocial World, and CEO of The New People Foundation, a new 501-3(c) nonprofit which advocates for integrating evolutionary principles and Indigenous wisdom into modern social and environmental solutions. He also runs the blog, WalkingTheRedRoad.Blog. You can contact him at [email protected].
(Written with Darcia Narvaez, PhD, for Global Solutions on their blog: https://www.global-solutions-initiative.org/article/re-nesting-humanity-the-key-step-to-solving-climate-change/) “I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I …
As a lifelong Spartan, I’ve seen every variety of team roll through East Lansing. Flashy scorers. Defensive grinders. Tournament flukes. I’ve seen Izzo-coached squads claw their way to Final Fours, …
Trump, Musk, and whatever the hell this weird Doge-libertarian-techno-utopian movement is—they actually have a point: our government is bloated, dysfunctional, and riddled with inefficiency. Anyone who’s had to navigate the …
When Charles Darwin first put pen to paper on On the Origin of Species, he had no way of knowing that his theory of natural selection would go on to …
The Republicans did not win the election cycle so much as the Democrats lost it—full stop. This means that the Democrats need to do some serious self-reflection. If you sat …
John Adams once wrote: “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and Philosophy, Geography, …
At some point in our not-too-distant evolutionary past, we forgot who we were. Or, perhaps more precisely, we started believing in something that never was. The grand myth of human …
Link to a downloadable PDF – Genetic Evolvability: Using a Restricted Pluralism to Tidy up the Evolvability Concept Chapter Summary: Advances in the empirical sectors of biology are beginning to …
In 1987, Gus Speth—a founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council—believed that climate change, ecosystem collapse, and biodiversity loss were the greatest threats to the planet. Thirty years later, he …
