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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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July 5, 2012

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Prehistoric Flatulence Warmed the Earth

Dinosaurs contributed approximately 520 million tons of methane gas to prehistoric environments every year.
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July 3, 2012

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Use Woofound, Learn Evolution.

It is important to note that evolution is not just about biological change.
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July 2, 2012

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Lipstick, the Recession and Evolutionary Psychology

Our findings confirmed that the lipstick effect is not only real, but deeply rooted in women’s mating psychology.
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July 2, 2012

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The Nature Of Regulation II: Regulate Or Die

In biology, regulation isn’t about less or more. It’s about just the right kind of regulation required to survive and reproduce.
David Sloan Wilson
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July 1, 2012

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Morality: What is it Good For?

How evolution sculpts moral systems.
Michael Price
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June 30, 2012

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Multilevel Selection is a Productive Theoretical Framework for Investigating Human History

Evolutionists respond to Steven Pinker's challenge to group selection. ETVOL welcomes all points of view.
Peter Turchin
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June 30, 2012

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Debate on Altruism, Human Social Evolution, and Natural Selection

In the spirit of Evolution: This View of Life's mantra "science as a process of constructive disagreement" we will highlight the debate and welcome all the arguments.
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June 28, 2012

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The Nature of Regulation I: Breaking Out of Our Narrative Prisons

Both liberal and conservative narratives about regulation are like prisons that confine reasonable people to predetermined choices. A new narrative based on the biological concept of regulation can set us free. Regulation is one of the most charged words in politics. If you’re a conservative, then you’re likely to think that regulation is a bad thing that erodes personal responsibility and prevents the free enterprise system from working its magic.
David Sloan Wilson
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June 28, 2012

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On the Evolution of Human Morality (a comment on Steven Pinker)

Why do fundamentally selfish beings, which is what humans are according to the selfish gene theory, accept cultural norms that contradict their natural strivings?
Herbert Gintis
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June 26, 2012

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Line blurs between man, animal: Monkeys do math, baboons seem to read, orangutans plan ahead

The more we study animals, the less special we seem.
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June 25, 2012

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We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much?

Modern medicine tells us that too much meat is bad for us, so what's a consumer to do?
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June 25, 2012

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Evolution and Our Inner Conflict

Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?
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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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