There are two different kinds of conflict in storytelling: internal and external. Now, we go into lots of detail in our definitive guide to conflict, but today, I want to focus on external conflict ...

But Gould’s idea applies to individuals, not nations. Hierarchical relationships are less likely to erupt into conflict. Examples include formal hierarchies: Militaries, organized tournaments in ...

In his fascinating 2019 book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, the Yale sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis describes research led by the evolutionary biologist Jessica ...