The Quality Life Jungle of Human Individual Differences
We see each other…and the world…through the biological lens of our individual differences
However…
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What the World Happiness Report 2026 actually measures
FOUNDATIONAL ARTICLES define the core concepts of predatory well-being. See our Foundational Articles.
FEATURE ARTICLES apply these concepts to real-world situations. See The Arithmetic of Global Predation.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW before reading the articles on this website. See What You Should Know.
Welcome to the Jungle!
The human motivations and capacities underlying every art, science, and innovation whether aimed at satisfying a need or seeking something good emerge from the complex interplay of genetic propensities and environmental conditions (e.g. social, political, economic, natural and biophysical).405
Like fingers ac
ross a piano’s keyboard creating a melody, this interplay produces life course trajectories with many variations and outcomes. In a similar way, individual experiences and traits emerge from the unique interplay of genetic propensities and environmental factors while on a broader scale, countries and cultures can have distinct but intertwined themes, harmonies and melodies created by the collective and dynamic gene-environment experiences of their populations.
Now…here we are in the 21st century…our biological and cultural themes, harmonies and melodies in discord.
Who are we and what have we done?
See our foundational article Predatory Well-Being: A Global Problem.
The gene-environment framework of every culture and country in the world is littered with the heritable inequalities of social hierarchy and socioeconomic stratification reproduced through multiple pathways that include the biological embedding of social experience.
The articles currently on this website explain the gene-environment basis of this pattern, laying the foundation for a series of new feature articles showing how increasingly complex global conflicts are accelerating this biologically embedded pattern into a crisis that will threaten the future of our genome and the planet.
Below is a short list of major social, economic, environmental and geopolitical problems that will be discussed in future articles.
In each of these flashpoints, a gene-environment paradox, system-justified harms, advancing AI technologies and the internet, are playing a critical role, accelerating changes in social, political and economic structures across the world.
–the unbridled concentration of income, wealth and technological power on a global basis
–cultural, racial and ethnocentric hostilities fueled by socioeconomic inequality
–the global impact of increasingly complex climate change inequities on low-income populations
–global conflicts over habitable and agricultural land
–global food production and distribution inequities
–global health, education and longevity disparities
–the Internet’s role in weaponizing data, fueling disinformation warfare and amplifying ethnic, racial, religious and cultural tribalism
–social conflicts over AI’s role in governance, education and resource distribution
–Biotech Elites capturing political systems and economic resources
–political instabilities resulting in the global rise of authoritarian regimes
–political and economic conflicts between nuclear nations
We believe by the end of this century, if nothing is done to prevent it, the unprecedented convergence of these factors will result in a gene-environment driven global flashpoint where the increasingly complex predatory stresses of social hierarchy and socioeconomic inequality will threaten the future of our genome and the planet’s life support systems.
Something must be done…
The Global Pursuit of Well-Being Across Our Gene-Environment Differences
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