https://www.dhewi.co.uk/tags/evolution/ Recent content in Evolution on dhewi https://www.dhewi.co.uk/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://www.dhewi.co.uk/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.125.7 en-gb Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:00:11 +0000 https://www.dhewi.co.uk/posts/society-evolution-has-no-mercy/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:00:11 +0000 https://www.dhewi.co.uk/posts/society-evolution-has-no-mercy/ Two books I read in recent years stay with me and keep bouncing off each other: One is called “The Invention of Good and Evil”, and one of its core themes is that human society is the product of evolution just as much as any species. That what that society considers important and moral and ethical is shaped by its response to the pressures on it and the solutions collectively found that allow it to thrive. https://www.dhewi.co.uk/posts/evolution-beats-design/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.dhewi.co.uk/posts/evolution-beats-design/ We humans think we’re great. We also think that what humans are good at must be most important, and overestimate how good we are. When evolution arrived as a theory, it had a tough job convincing everybody, as is well known. Scepticism runs deep about it even now, partly because it’s deeply unintuitive. Looking at the world, we see that it’s full of amazingly functional things working together. Considering that we, as humans, spend a lot of our time trying to create functional things, it’s very difficult not to imagine that what we see is deliberately designed to do what it does.