The 3.5 billion-year-old R&D lab right in front of us

Below, Owen Jones shares five key insights from his new book, Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution’s Deepest Logic―and Putting It to Use. Jones is a professor of law and biology at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses, in part, on the implications of natural selection for everything from medicine to law to the way we make decisions. What’s the big idea? We are prone to make big, extremely consequential mistakes and miss important opportunities to improve the human condition a...