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Jonathan R Goodman

Researcher and writer, University of Cambridge

Jonathan R Goodman is a social scientist based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World (2025).

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Written by Jonathan R Goodman

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essayHuman evolution

How selfish are we?

An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition

Jonathan R Goodman

A closed double door with the word “Dodgers” and a baseball graphic painted across it in stylised letters.

ideaArt

If culture is too expensive for most, everyone pays a price

Jonathan R Goodman

Handwritten notes with doodles, graphs and text discussing data variability and uncertainty in a spiral-bound notebook.

ideaBioethics

How statistics are twisted to obscure public understanding

Jonathan R Goodman