Links

http://edge.org/ A very interesting site which is sort of an edited group blog. The editor (John Brockman) solicits essays from people with scientific or technical expertise, and also has some visual art. The site is kind of print-like in its organization, and content is hard to find. The main starting point is the Edge editions, which is a newsletter that you can subscribe to.

http://neuroanthropology.net/ Anthropologists are making important contributions, but there is still much resistance to evolutionary reasoning.

http://onthehuman.org/ National Humanities Center

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/serendip/ An edited multi-contributor site with an emphasis on scientific understanding of human behavior and social organization. Contributors seem to be mainly from Brynmawr.

http://www.bltc.com/ Strange, but true. If it would only work, the only sure way to end human suffering is genetic engineering. We suspect that suffering is still adaptive today, so that even if they achieve their goal they will go the way of the Shakers. See Reprogramming the Mind.

http://www.buddhivihara.org/article13.htm Darwinian Buddhism. Of the major world faiths, Buddhism is the most evolutionarily compatible. Charles Darwin himself was influenced by Buddhism in his later years, though it probably had no effect on his original basic theory.