Max Beilby

“In Wild Genius, filmmaker Susan Kucera and executive producer Jim Swift peel back the layers of Robert Trivers’ life and work, revealing a man whose brilliance is matched only by his wild lifestyle.” Read my latest review for Darwinian Business. darwinianbusiness.com/2025/03/24/wil…

My NEW FAVE PODCAST: Real evolutionary social scientists talking about actual research (+ other weird stuff). I talked FRIENDSHIP with @DavePietrasz + @DavidPinsof.

The creators of “South Park” realized something about Donald Trump early on: he’s an endless wellspring of material, but what he says and does is inevitably more absurd than any satire could be. nyer.cm/LZb20PW

In the age of doomscrolling and doomerism, @AthenaAktipis brings a message of hope: that humans are adapted for wild, even apocalyptic, times.

The brain that helped hunter-gatherers to survive could be causing modern society’s downfall. | iai.tv/articles/human… University of Oxford anthropologist, Harvey Whitehouse, argues that the same ancient psychology that once scaled up human cooperation now risks tearing our…

Obama on the male malaise - 8 takeaways. My latest newsletter. This is a big moment for this debate. He said: - Progressives need to re-frame their narrative - We need more men in the lives of boys - Dads rock - Spaces for male solidarity are vital - We need more boy-friendly…

New episode!! 🎙️📣 A chat w/ @DorsaAmir & @sheinalew about childhood across cultures. Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places. Listen: disi.org/varieties-of-c…

Next Episode is up! Dave and David discuss examples of good evolutionary psychology. epthepod.podbean.com/e/good-evoluti… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo… youtu.be/4CrMnhPHPec?si…

Episode Three is up! Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology. This is one to listen to through to the end! See (some of) you at @HumBehEvoSoc ! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con… podbean.com/ew/pb-fexyz-18… youtu.be/vtJlNgsSymw?si…

Flattered to have received two professional honors this year! Grateful to the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (@HumBehEvoSoc) for the HBES Fellow Award. I’m delighted to be a part of this thriving, intellectually vibrant community full of great people. 🎉 And I’m happy to…

Are you a student or professor in psychology -- or any of the social sciences? If so, you've definitely seen this mistake before. It's all over the textbooks and journal articles. You might have seen it formulated in any of these ways: - Is that behavior evolved or learned?…

SO excited to announce that INVISIBLE RIVALS by the brilliant @jonathnrgoodman publishes today! 'Working across philosophy, evolutionary biology, public policy, and politics, Invisible Rivals is unlike any other book I’ve read.’ - Devi Sridhar

Very excited to share this @guardian The Big Idea piece by @jonathnrgoodman about evolution, strongmen, and how to resist them. For more, make sure to pre-order a copy of INVISIBLE RIVALS by Jonathan Goodman, which publishes June 17! theguardian.com/books/2025/may…

Thrilled to announce my new book on shelves soon: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Our longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden. Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I'm very honored to receive this award. A lot of hard, challenging work went into this research but i think i learned something about human nature and our evolution. Thank you @HumBehEvoSoc and colleagues.

“We see our results as important for theoretical reasons, but also for understanding ongoing conflicts around the world and rising preferences for dominant and strong leaders,” ⁦@markvanvugt1⁩ and Lasse Lausten explained. psypost.org/major-study-po…

Darwin's insights are genius and simple - and apply to larger systems, societies, businesses, etc. The generalised process of variation and differential success in replication isn't just relevant to the passing on of genes. It defined our world.

The evolutionary approach to medicine that George Williams I developed was made possible by @UMich Provost Nancy Cantor who reallocated half my time from medicine to LSA. It was not a committee, or funding, or a special program, it was a person who made a new field possible.

“The higher we rise, the more likely we are to live, love and procreate. It’s the essence of human thriving. It’s the status game,” ⁦@wstorr⁩ observes. From the Darwinian Business archives: darwinianbusiness.com/2022/01/08/the…

If anyone is looking for a great non-fiction editor, @bsgallagher is your man. He did brilliant work for me improving the draft of The Anxious Generation, and on @EthicalSystems. Highly recommend.

“The best stories, the stories that last through the ages that we can watch again and again and again, are about all three: survival, connection, and status.” — @wstorr 🔗 bit.ly/4kAzJ8f