Antony Adolf
Antony Adolf author of Peace: A World History, is an independent scholar born in Montreal of Egyptian and Greek parents. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, M.A. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a post-graduate certificate from Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory. (More…) His early research into and publications about multilingualism and immigration merged with his global policy concerns after 9/11. Since the publication of Peace: A World History, he has appeared on national television and has been asked to speak at both popular and academic events around the country, including being a featured speaker at the Peace and Justice Studies Association and Peace History Society. He is also the publisher and host of One World, Many Peaces: The Blog and Podcast. He is currently based in Chicago, where he teaches. (Hide)

Jenna Bednar
Dr. Bednar is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research is on the analysis of institutions, focusing on the theoretical underpinnings of the stability of federal states. (More…) Her models seek to answer questions such as: Why does the federal government take advantage of state governments? Why are some federations stable despite frequent episodes of intergovernmental tension? And can the court effectively referee federalism disputes if it makes mistakes or is biased in favor of one government? She is also interested in constitutions: specifically, the potential that constitutional design has to affect the behavior of heterogeneous populations with decentralized governmental structures. She is author of The Robust Federation: Principles of Design. (Hide)

Eric Beinhocker
Dr. Beinhocker is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company’s economics research arm, where he leads research on economic, management, and public policy issues. He was previously a partner at McKinsey and a leader in its Strategy Practice. (More…) He has been a software CEO, a venture capitalist, and an executive director of the Corporate Executive Board; at McKinsey he has served clients in a broad range of industries, including telecoms, computing, pharmaceuticals, and aerospace. He has also held research appointments at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School and has been a visiting scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. He is author of The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. (Hide)

David Berreby
David is an award winning independent science writer and researcher. David has worked as an Editor for the City University of New York, Associate Editor for The Sciences at the New York Academy of Sciences, as well as a Freelancer for Discover Magazine. In 1995 David became Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (More…) His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Nature, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Smithsonian, The Journal of Strategy and Business, The Huffington Post and many other publications. Author of the award-winning book Us and Them: The Science of Identity. (Hide)

Anthony Biglan
Dr. Biglan is Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute. Tony is director of ORI’s Center on Early Adolescence and past president of the Society for Prevention Research. (More…) He has been doing research for the last 25 years on the prevention of adolescent problem behaviors, including numerous experimental evaluations of interventions to prevent tobacco, other drug use, high-risk sexual behavior, reading failure, and aggressive social behavior. He is author of Helping Adolescents at Risk and Changing Cultural Practices: A Contextualist Framework for Intervention Research. (Hide)

Terry Burnham
Dr. Burnham is a Harvard economist who studies the biology of economic behavior. A former professor at the Harvard Business School, he is now Director of Economics at Acadian Asset Management LLC, a firm the manages $60 Billion.(More…) Dr. Burnham has a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University. Terry is author of Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit From the new Science of Irrationality.. (Hide)

Terrence Deacon
Dr. Deacon is Professor of Biological Anthropology and Linguistics at UC Berkeley. Terry’s theoretical interests include the study of evolution-like processes at multiple levels, their role in embryonic development, neural signal processing, language change, and social processes, and focusing especially on how these different processes interact and depend on each other. (More…) He has long stated an interest in developing a scientific semiotics (particularly biosemiotics) that would contribute to both linguistic theory and cognitive neuroscience. He is author of The Symbolic Species. (Hide)

Dennis Embry
Dr. Embry is a scientist-entrepreneur who is president of PAXIS Institute in Tucson, AZ. His scholarly writing focuses on social change applied to large population-level change— integrating brain, behavioral, and evolutionary factors. He is a former National Research Advisory Council Senior Fellow in the Commonwealth, recipient of the science to practice award in 2006 by the Society for Prevention Research, and author of multiple manuals and training efforts for social change. (More…) He is currently preparing a new popular book and TV program for PBS entitled, “Youthanasia: How modern culture is slowly killing our youth and what can be done.”(Hide)

Jennifer Fewell
Dr. Fewell is Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Her area of research is the evolution of social organization in the social insects. She is interested in how division of labor and task organization self-organize and evolve within insect societies, from communal to eusocial, and in the question of how social groups function as self-organizing networks.(More…) Her current work focuses on how division of labor within social groups can emerge via self-organization around intrinsic variation in task performance by individual workers, in network models of task allocation, and in the role of genotypic variation in the task organization of eusocial colonies. Dr Fewell is active in ASU’s Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, for which she served as a founding co-director..(Hide)

Christophre Georges
Dr. Georges is Professor of Economics at Hamilton College. His research focuses on macroeconomic dynamics, agent-based modeling in macroeconomics and finance, and the interaction between learning and market dynamics. (More…) He has been a visiting professor at Washington University and the University of Michigan and a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford.(Hide)

Oliver R. Goodenough
Dr. Goodenough is Professor of Law at the University of Vermont and Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Oliver is an expert in the law of business, including corporations, entertainment law, intellectual property, securities law, and trademarks. (More…). He is also extensively involved in applying neuroscience to problems in the law. He has conducted fMRI scanning experiments on the neurological basis of moral reasoning at the University of London. (Hide)

Patricia Gowaty
Dr. Gowaty is Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Her research interests include evolutionary ecology, evolution of behavior, sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior, maternal effects, developmental plasticity, sex allocation, and genetic parentage. (More…) She is author of Feminism and Evolutionary Biology: Boundaries, Intersections, and Frontiers. (Hide)

John M. Gowdy
Dr. Gowdy is Rittenhouse Professor of Humanities and Social Science, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is past president of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics and is President-Elect of the International Society for Ecological Economics. (More…) His current research interests include climate change, biodiversity valuation, behavioral economics, evolutionary economics, and new directions in microeconomic theory. He has been a Fulbright scholar at the Economic University of Vienna, Leverhulme Professor at Leeds University and a visiting scholar at the Autonomous Universiy Barcelona, the University of Zurich, the Free University of Amsterdam, the University of Queensland and Tokushima University. His recent books are Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Students Guide, Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature, co-authored with Carl McDaniel, Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Enviornment, and Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application, co-edited with Jon Erickson. (Hide)

Joseph Henrich
Dr. Henrich is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, and Evolution at the University of British Columbia. Joe uses an evolutionary approach to psychology, decision-making, and culture with an emphasis on the cognition foundations of cultural learning.(More…) Also, his research examines economic behavior and the emergence of complex human institutions and societies. He is author of Why Humans Cooperate and Foundations of Human Sociality.(Hide)

James H. Hunt
Dr. Hunt is currently a Sabbatical Scholar at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. He is a former professor and chair of biology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and now a visiting professor of biology and entomology and an affiliate of the W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology at North Carolina State University.(More…) He pursues research to understand the mechanisms (“proximate factors”) of evolution that have led to the origin of social behavior in insects, especially in the social wasp genus Polistes. He is author of The Evolution of Social Wasps. (Hide)

Stephen Hubbell
Dr. Hubell is Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Steve combines theory and empirical research in the study of biological diversity. He founded The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) which works with the parties that create and use environmental knowledge to influence environmental decisions.(More…) Thus, Steve represents expertise in environmental policy issues in addition to his expertise as an ecologist and evolutionist. He is author of The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography. (Hide)

Douglas T. Kenrick
Dr. Kenrick is Professor of Social Psychology at Arizona State University. He is author of over 160 scientific articles, books, and book chapters, the majority applying evolutionary ideas to human behavior and thought processes. At a theoretical level, his work integrates ideas from three great syntheses of the last few decades: evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and dynamical systems theory.(More…) Much of that work has been funded by NIMH and NSF and has been reported in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Psychological Review, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Evolution and Human Behavior. Kenrick has edited several books on evolutionary psychology, contributed chapters to the Handbook of Social Psychology and the Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, and been an author of two multi-edition textbooks (Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction, with Steve Neuberg and Bob Cialdini, now in its 5th edition). Kenrick’s research been covered in national media including Newsweek, New York Times, Psychology Today, and many other newspapers and popular magazines, and he has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show and on several BBC and Discovery Channel documentaries on evolution and social behavior..(Hide)

Janet Landa
Dr. Landa is Professor of Economics, York University. The focus of Janet’s research is the law-and-economic analysis of extra-legal institutions for achieving social order such as social norms embedded in ethnic trading networks and gift exchange.(More…) She is the author of Trust, Ethnicity and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange. She also contributes to the bioeconomics literature on non-human societies such as schooling fish, ant and bee colonies. She is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bioeconomics. . (Hide)

Jerry Lieberman
Dr. Lieberman is President of the Humanists of Florida Association and co-director of the Evolution Institute.(More…) Earlier in his career, Jerry served as a university-level professor and administrator. He also was the principal of an investment banking company and an importer with the former Soviet Union. He has served on numerous government and corporate boards and has raised over 100 million dollars from public and private resources to support activities he is engaged with. It was Jerry’s original vision to create an evolutionary think tank, which he directs with his management in addition to his intellectual skills. (Hide)

Joel Peck
Dr. Peck is an Evolutionary Theorist working at the University of Sussex. Much of Joel’s work focuses on the evolution of social behaviour, and particularly on the way that social structures evolve. This, in turn, leads to the identification of situations that tend to encourgage cooperative (or altruistic) behaviour. (More…) Joel has also worked on a variety of other problems in evolutionary biology, including the origin of life and the evolution of sexual reproduction. At present, Joel is focussed on using the formal theory of information to address a variety of evolutionary problems.(Hide)

Peter J. Richerson
Dr. Richerson is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis. Pete uses methods of analysis of evolution mainly developed by evolutionary biologists to study the processes of cultural evolution. (More…) The idea is to make models that illuminate the evolutionary properties of human culture and animal social learning, and the processes of gene-culture co-evolution. With Robert Boyd, he is author of Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution among other books. (Hide)

Peter Todd
Dr. Todd is Professor of Cognitive Science, Informatics and Psychology at Indiana University and formerly Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. (More…) Peter’s research interests cover the simple cognitive mechanisms that exploit information structures in the environment to generate adaptive behavior, how such mechanisms evolve, and the ways in which evolution, cognition, and other adaptive processes (including learning and culture) can interact with each other. With Gerd Gigerenzer, he is author of Simple Heuristics that Make us Smart. (Hide)

Peter Turchin
Dr. Turchin is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. Peter was trained as a population biologist and is now applying his theoretical and empirical skills to develop the field of Cliodynamics–the quantitative study of human history. (More…) His books include Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall and War and Peace and War: The Life Cycle of Imperial Nations. (Hide)

Jonathan Turner
Dr. Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at University of California Riverside. Jonathan has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR and President of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (More…) Within the discipline, he is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more substantive specialties, including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. With Alexandra Maryanski, he is author of On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection and On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry into the Evolution of Human Affect (Hide)

Harvey Whitehouse
Dr. Whitehouse is Professor of Anthropology at University of Oxford. He is Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Director of the Centre for Anthropology and Mind, and a Fellow of Magdalen College.(More…) After carrying out two years of field research on a ‘cargo cult’ in New Britain , Papua New Guinea in the late eighties, Harvey developed a theory of ‘modes of religiosity’ that has been the subject of extensive critical evaluation and testing by anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, and cognitive scientists. He is author of Modes of Religiosity: a cognitive theory of religious transmission and recently edited Religion, Anthropology and Cognitive Science.(Hide)

David Sloan Wilson
Dr. Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, both in his own research and as director of EvoS, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program that recently received NSF funding to expand into a nationwide consortium. (More…) His books include Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Chicago, 2002) and Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives (Bantam, 2007). Wilson’s background makes him ideally suited to direct the Evolution Institute. (Hide)

Edward O. Wilson
Dr. Wilson is University Research Professor in Entomology at Harvard University and member of the executive board of the Evolution Institute. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on evolution and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (More…) He is author of Sociobiology, On Human Nature, and Consilience among other books. (Hide)

Bernard Winograd
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Prudential, Inc. and member of the executive board of the Evolution Institute. Bernard oversees the U.S. businesses of Prudential, where he manages over 450 billion dollars of assets. Before joining Prudential, he held executive positions at Taubman Centers, Inc., a national regional shopping center company, the Bendix Corporation, and the U.S. Treasury. (More…) A University of Chicago Bachelor of Arts graduate, he has a long standing interest in evolution that led to his association with the Evolution Institute. It was Bernard who originally proposed that “The Nature of Regulation” should become one of our focal topics. (Hide)