This chapter explores humanity’s “hyper-cooperativity,” as described by new and longstanding research in evolutionary biology, and the way the biology illuminates work on human relationality and covenantality in the areas of theology and ontology. It appears in the 2024 book, Assembling […]
Click here for article > The Nature of Humanity & the Origins of Religion This article looks at the evolutionary biology evidence for human relationality and “hypercooperativity” that was the human modus vivendi until relatively recent agrarianism. It was published in […]
Circling the Wagons or Opening the Circle For Dialog https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dial.12614 By Marcia Pally, New York University, [email protected] Abstract: “To approach eudaimonia or human flourishing,” Darcia Narvaez writes, “one must have a concept of human nature, a realization of what constitutes […]
Are Humans Wired for Violence? Evolutionary biology begs to differ Marcia Pally | November 27, 2015 (RNS) Given the terrorist attacks of the last few weeks, one might be forgiven for feeling a bit bleak about the human species, its frequent use […]