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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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December 9, 2020
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The Epidemic and the Epistemic: An Exercise in Evolutionary Sociology
The present pandemic is a stark reminder that humans are, first and foremost, biological beings – as vulnerable to environmental and evolved threats as is any other organism.
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December 7, 2020
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A War Between the Economy and Earth
How and why did humans become collectively configured around an economic system that places them at odds with the planetary boundaries of the Earth?
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November 9, 2020
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Promoting Cooperation in Schools Using Norms and Processes from our Evolutionary History
Cooperative learning can help to establish social conditions that are similar to those that brought about cooperation in early humans.
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November 5, 2020
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Elinor’s Classroom: Developing a Connected Concept of the Commons for 21st Century Civic Education
A new culture of interdisciplinary teaching is emerging in regards to the cultural evolution of school communities as agents of change through social learning.
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November 2, 2020
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Human Nature at Work with Andrew O'Keeffe
TVOL guest host Max Beilby talks with Andrew O'Keeffe about his work helping leaders make better sense of the human dimension of their role, so that they can work with, rather than against, human nature.
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November 2, 2020
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The Study of Nature in Early America: A Conversation with Lee Dugatkin
Darwin was an integral part of the Enlightenment and was avidly pursued by early Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and the portrait artist Charles Willson Peale, who created the most famous museum of the Revolutionary era.
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November 2, 2020
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Managing the Human Animal, with Nigel Nicholson and Max Beilby
Max Beilby and Nigel Nicholson discuss the application of evolutionary psychology to the world of business and management.
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November 2, 2020
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Evolution Does Not Explain Tyranny: COVID-19 Could Have Led To Many Fewer Deaths If Tyranny Had Been Less Prevalent in Washington, D.C.
In times of public health crisis, political leaders need to suppress dysfunctional personality traits and instead rely on and uphold public health experts.
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October 26, 2020
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From the Middle: Sites of Culture, Cooperation, and Trust in Risk Society
Democracy will live or die depending on its ability to respond to twenty-first-century hazards.
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October 12, 2020
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Evolutionary Biologists Need to Know about Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum
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October 12, 2020
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How Covid-19 Reminds Us We Are More Alike Than Different
Genetic differences between individuals within groups are much greater than any average differences between groups of individuals.
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September 14, 2020
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For God’s Sake! What’s All This Fuss About a Virus?
The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a simple reminder that the success of Homo sapiens has been essentially a cooperative enterprise.
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August 4, 2020
[BONUS EPISODE] Geoffrey Hodgson on Evolutionary Thinking and Its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism
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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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