Cooperation Games
What can we learn from cooperation games about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Cooperation games help us to investigate the causes, variations, and consequences of human behavior in social situations.
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
How can we use insights about human evolution, human behavior, and the causal interactions in social-ecological systems to address local, regional and global sustainability issues? How can we use these understandings to solve real world problems?
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Our Mind
What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Understanding the causes of our perceptions, intuitions, and beliefs helps us to engage them more flexibly, change perspective, and learn from each other to achieve shared goals.
Computer Models
What can we learn from computer models about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Computer models allow us to observe and investigate the influence of environmental conditions and behaviors on the evolutionary development of social-ecological systems.
Governing the Commons
What can we learn from communities around the world managing shared resources about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Exploring diverse sustainability dilemmas in the world helps us to identify the conditions and behaviors that play a role in the sustainable development of communities.
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Cultural Diversity
What can we learn from the diversity of human cultures about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Studying the behaviors of humans around the world helps us understand what all humans have in common and how flexible we are as a species.
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Child Development
What can we learn from children about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? The development of social and cognitive abilities in the course of a lifetime can help us understand the causes of human behavior and the origins of our everyday experience.
Cross-Species Comparisons
What can we learn from our biologically close and distant relatives about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Comparing traits of humans and other species helps us understand the causes of our behaviors and the principles of cooperation and sustainability.
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Ancient Ancestors
What can we learn from our ancestors about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Exploring the characteristics of our ancestors, their living conditions, and the things they left behind, gives us clues about the causes of human behavior and the importance of cooperation in the history of our species.
