"But the conventional narrative is lumpy, a story that glosses what passes for quiescence to focus on "events": the ap…"

"I've spent most of the last few days looking at information to help me reimagine... a history... that digs into the s…"

"Whose natural West has this been all along? Is it evolution's superorganism? Or did the United States inherit a natur…"

"[T]he human past... belongs not only to (say) the Blackfeet or the Mormons, but to all of us. ...[W]e humans cannot b…"

"I actually tried to find some other analogy around the world in modern history that provided an example of any countr…"

"I write this sitting in my hand-built adobe-style home looking out on the ... It's a place where the "Old" West and t…"

"The humanities have usually left evolutionary nature to the biologists. But some of the other questions here are... p…"

"[M]any of us came... through a tradition in Western writing that harkens back to ... ... and James Malin (who pioneer…"

"Optimal Foraging Strategy models... have asserted that what appears to be "conservation" among hunting peoples was (a…"

"Like Wilson and a slew of other authors working on what was once called "sociobiology" but is now usually called "evo…"