tional funds also are closed to new investments at this point. The firm was founded in 2007 by chief executive Edward Robertson, portfolio manager Dominic Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative member of the British House of Commons. • Boston Co. Hires Emerging-Market Pro Boston Company, a BNY Mellon u

d facilitating this Edge Special Event with Napoleon Chagnon, the last of the great ethnographers.] THE REALITY CLUB: Lionel Tiger, Paul Seabright, Dominic Johnson, Azar Gat, Daniel Everett INTRODUCTION By Richard Dawkins Chagnon's extraordinary body of work will long be mined, not just by anthropologists but

among religious groups 1s often facilitated by punishment or the implication of punishment from a deity. In a study of 186 societies by the biologist Dominic Johnson, analyses showed that those who believed in a strong moralizing god, capable of doling out punishment, engaged in higher levels of cooperation, inclu

idence that distorted optimism can slow disease progression. Positive illusions are, as noted by the biologists Richard Wrangham, Robert Trivers, and Dominic Johnson, a form of self-deception with considerable evolutionary benefits. But like the runaway capacity of desire, so too can our illusions of grandeur runa