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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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September 8, 2012
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When Men Stop Seeking Beauty and Women Care Less About Wealth
The more equal men and women became, the less emphasis men placed on youth and beauty, and the less emphasis women put on wealth and power.
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September 7, 2012
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Men and Women Really Do See Things Differently
Men and women really don't see eye to eye, according to a new study.
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September 6, 2012
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Reciprocity An Important Component Of Prosocial Behavior
While exchanging favors with others, humans tend to think in terms of tit-for-tat, an assumption easily extended to other animals.
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September 5, 2012
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A Grimm Tale of Reproductive Conflict
A new study argues that in-law competition drove the evolution of menopause. But is the story too good to be true?
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September 5, 2012
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Ayn Rand and Modern Politics
The problem with visions of life that are detached from the world—no matter how intoxicating—is that they crash and burn when they encounter the real world.The problem with visions of life that are detached from the world—no matter how intoxicating—is that they crash and burn when they encounter the real world.
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September 4, 2012
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Aspiration Makes Us Human
Our drive to exceed our evolutionary limits sets us apart from other beasts
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September 4, 2012
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Evolutionary Theory’s Welcome Crisis
Those who believe that a supernatural being created the universe have never posed an intellectual challenge to evolutionary theory.
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September 2, 2012
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Touring The Brain
Our brains are rather like a city that has existed since ancient times
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September 1, 2012
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The Evolution of Fairness
Can examining how inequality began in a hunter-gatherer society teach us how to fairly share the costs and consequences of how we use diminishing natural resources?
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August 31, 2012
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Ancient Human Kin’s DNA Code Illuminates Rise of Brains
DNA analysis of an extinct human ancestor that lived 80,000 years ago has pinpointed fundamental genes tied to the brain’s evolution.
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August 29, 2012
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Small Family Size Increases the Wealth of Descendants but Reduces Evolutionary Success
Having a small number of children increased the economic success and social position of descendants across up to four generations, but reduced the total number of long-term descendants.
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August 29, 2012
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Using Evolution to Understand Apple’s Business Model
Compared to competing companies, they routinely blow everybody else out of the water. How is this the case?
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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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