My fascination with natural phenomena is not limited to the understanding of its underlying physics principles, but also the origins of life, human nature, and culture.
Life is an amazing structure which, by definition, perpetuates itself. By doing so, it evolves. Features seen within a given species are adaptations, they can be understood as being solutions to an evolutionary problem. This applies to traits which develop universally in all humans - physical and psychological alike. Evolutionary psychology, which studies what all humans have in common, is a fascinating emerging field of science. Understanding our nature is about understanding in which conditions our genes evolved to give us the specific configuration of body and brain shared by all humans today.