Give Well - The Best Way to Make a Difference in the World

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Give directly is a non profit that lets you send money directly to people living in extreme poverty with no strings attached. In the last decade, give d s delivered over 550 million dollars to over one point two million people across 11 countries. Givewell spends over 20 thousand hours each year researching charitable organizations and only recommends a few of the highest impact evidence base charities. So visit give well dot org slash mind scape, and your donation will be matched up to 500 dollars.

Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as it does within science. But as much as people know about evolution, we also find the growth of corresponding myths. Simon Conway Morris is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who’s new book is From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution. He is known as a defender of evolutionary convergence and adaptationism — even when there is a mass extinction, he argues, the resulting shake-up simply accelerates the developments evolution would have made anyway. We talk about this, and also about the possible role of God in an evolutionary worldview.

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Simon Conway Morris received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an emeritus professor of evolutionary paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge. Among his awards are the Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences and the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London.

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