HealthSociology For God’s Sake! What’s All This Fuss About a Virus? The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a…Andrew AtkinsonSeptember 14, 2020
Sociology Gene-Culture and Potential Culture-Gene Coevolution: The Future of COVID-19 Just as COVID-19's genes initially selected for changes in our culture, in the future those…Marion BluteSeptember 7, 2020
BiologySociology The Coronavirus in Evolutionary Perspective Humans evolved social potential to cooperate with others will eventually ignite a collective response to…Alexandra MaryanskiAugust 31, 2020
HealthSociology Institutionalization of Animal Welfare and the Evolution of Coronavirus(es) The current pandemic is an obvious manifestation of the price society has to pay for…Erin M. EvansAugust 24, 2020
EconomySociology The Coronavirus Pandemic, Evolutionary Sociology, and Long-Term Economic Growth in the United States Despite the coronavirus, the per capita growth average should return to normal, just as it…Michael HammondAugust 17, 2020
Sociology Speculations About Why Sociological Social Psychology Largely Elides Evolutionary Logic Humans have evolved to favor their in-groups, but who is considered part of the in-group…Steven HitlinAugust 10, 2020
BiologyPsychologySociology Bringing Neuroscience and Sociology into Dialogue on Emotions to Better Understand Human Behavior What this potential marriage suggests is there are great possibilities for research, particularly around social…Seth AbrutynAugust 4, 2020
Sociology Natural and Sociocultural Selection: Analyzing the Failure to Respond to the C-19 Pandemic Another level of selection is now operating in the social universe: selection on the social…Jonathan H. TurnerAugust 3, 2020
HealthSociology Is Video Chat a Sufficient Proxy for Face-to-Face Interaction? Biosociological Reflections on Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic “Zoom fatigue” and “touch starvation” have evolutionary origins that researchers need to take seriously.Will Kalkhoff, Richard T. Serpe, Josh PollockJuly 28, 2020
HealthSociology Social Science Contributions to the Study of Zoonotic Spillover: Normal Accidents and Treadmill Theory Two approaches help us identify high-risk activities and social processes that heighten the likelihood of…Michael Ryan Lengefeld, Greg Hooks, Chad L. SmithJuly 27, 2020
