Showing posts with label policymaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label policymaking. Show all posts

28 December 2009

EVOLUTIONARY POLICYMAKING

We need to shed our prehistoric policymaking practices and turn to evolution for guidance, argues David Sloan Wilson.

For almost everyone, evolution is about fossils, dinosaurs and human origins. But it should also be about governance, education, health, peace and virtually every other public policy issue relevant to human welfare.

Why is evolutionary theory missing from the toolkit of politicians and their expert advisers?

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The Evolution Institute