January 11, 2010 - EI

The UK’s Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA) has a history that stretches back to the Enlightenment. Today, it is a progressive policy organization that appreciates the relevance of evolutionary theory and features an article about the EI in the current issue of its journal. The article is written by EI co-director David Sloan Wilson and is titled “Policymaking the Darwinist Way.” It provides a concise summary of the EI’s mission and three current foci on childhood education, risky adolescent behavior, and the nature of regulation. The same issue features an article by primatologist Frans DeWaal titled “How Bad Biology Killed the Economy”  and a description of the RSA’s own Social Brain Project.