1. Editorial

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 3 - 6

2. The Mixed Blessings of Material Progress: Diminishing Returns in the Pursuit of Happiness

   • Richard Eckersley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 292

3. The Biophilia Hypothesis and Life in the 21st Century: Increasing Mental Health or Increasing Pathology?

   • Eleonora Gullone

   OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 322

4. Global Progress I: Empirical Evidence for ongoing Increase in Quality-of-life

   • Francis Heylighen
   • Jan Bernheim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 349

5. Global Progress II: Evolutionary Mechanisms and their Side-effects

   • Francis Heylighen
   • Jan Bernheim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 374

6. Modernity and Happiness – The Case of Germany

   • Thomas Bulmahn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 399

7. Transhumanism and the Wisdom of Old Genes is Neurotechnology as Source of Future Happiness?

   • Ad Bergsma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 417