A new Portland Press Herald story translates our recent research on how long-standing patterns of human evolution pose a major challenge for solving global environmental challenges, such as climate change. The research was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, and is freely available. This paper is the first of it’s kind, and we are hopeful that it opens a new research domain to study the problem more closely. If these preliminary findings are even partly accurate, then this area deserves immediate attention, further research, and ethical policy development. Also covered in Nautilus magazine.

Further information on the paper can be found in a University of Maine press release and this Twitter thread explaining this novel line of research.