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The Case for Adding Darwin to Behavioral Economics

As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.

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April 23, 2020

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We Are All Socialists, Globalists, Democrats, Capitalists, Environmentalists, Technologists, and Scientists

Combining these social identities into a UNION can result in a transformation of politics.
Publius
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April 20, 2020

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Pandemic: A Global Opportunity for National Renewal or Deterioration

Pandemics spread among human populations because the viruses and bacteria that cause them exploit a key evolutionary asset of the human species: our unique pro-social nature.
Scott Atran
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April 16, 2020

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The Crisis of Capitalism

We must evolve a form of capitalism that minimizes harm and maximizes benefit.
Anthony Biglan
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April 14, 2020

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Why Capitalism Fails

Under free-market capitalism, greed becomes good and traditional moral systems become obsolete.
Publius
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April 9, 2020

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The Fossil Fuel Industry: The Greatest Threat to Human Wellbeing

Fossil fuel companies have an incentive to prevent policies that would keep them from selling their assets. We should not be surprised, therefore, that these companies have taken steps to prevent such an outcome.
Anthony Biglan
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April 7, 2020

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Why Socialism Fails

Evolutionary theory leads to a conception of socialism—governance for the common good—that works. It also explains why many attempts at socialism in the past and present have not worked.
Publius
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April 3, 2020

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To Adapt to Your Current Challenges, Try this Speed Version of ProSocial

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the challenges that the global pandemic has thrust upon you? A positive change method called ProSocial can help you in the space of an hour.
David Sloan Wilson
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April 2, 2020

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How Free-Market Ideology Resulted in the Great Recession

The evolutionary principles of variation and selection are relevant to finance because the practices of banks and related financial institutions are selected by their impact on profits.
Anthony Biglan
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March 30, 2020

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Self-Interest, Rightly Understood, is Social

The checks and balances built into the U.S. Constitution and the invisible hand of the market must be supplemented by the insights of evolutionary theory.
Publius
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March 28, 2020

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Evolutionary Mismatch in the Workplace with Mark van Vugt and Max Beilby

Mark van Vugt
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March 26, 2020

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Big Pharma and the Death of Americans

As long as harmful practices result in profits to corporations and income to corporate leaders, harmful practices will continue.
Anthony Biglan
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March 23, 2020

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How Coronavirus Bypasses Our Behavioral Immune System (And What We Can Do About It)

The evolved emotion of disgust neutralizes many pathogens by helping us avoid what makes us sick. We need to adapt our behavioral immune system to counter new threats.
Joshua Tybur
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Atlas Hugged and the Nature of Fiction, with Brian Boyd

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Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten

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Human Nature at Work with Andrew O'Keeffe

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The Study of Nature in Early America: A Conversation with Lee Dugatkin

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Managing the Human Animal, with Nigel Nicholson and Max Beilby

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Cultural Evolution with Alex Mesoudi

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[BONUS] Robert Kurzban On the Modular Mind

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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
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Evolutionary Science in Joyce’s Ulysses

James Joyce developed a writing technique that mirrored advances in the evolutionary science of his day and these insights are present in his novel. To explore this link, we can begin by looking at the most direct references to evolution science. Amidst the range of references to cultural figures in Ulysses, Charles Darwin makes a number of appearances, most notably in the fourteenth chapter, Oxen of the Sun.

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