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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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October 21, 2019
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Lynette Shaw on Social Constructionism and Finding Academic Common Ground
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October 3, 2019
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Seven Reasons Why Most Major Depression is Probably Not a Brain Disorder
If most MD, as it is currently diagnosed, is not a disorder, should we keep calling it Major Depression?
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September 25, 2019
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New Foundations for Macroeconomics
Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have been entwined throughout their histories. Yet modern macroeconomic theory has yet to incorporate developments in evolutionary theory during the last few decades.
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September 10, 2019
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Blurring the Line Between “Others” – A Practical Application of Cultural Multilevel Selection Theory
Through a cultural multilevel selection perspective, seeing an individual “other” as human can shift the level of selection from within subgroups at a lower level to between groups at a higher level.
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August 28, 2019
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The Darwinian ‘Struggle for Existence’ is Really About Balance
Darwin made it clear that the term "struggle for existence" was not to be taken literally but should rather be understood in a large and metaphorical sense.
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August 21, 2019
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Girls Who Grow Up Without Their Father Start Their Periods Earlier, Or Do They?
New research challenges the idea that girls who grow up in households without a father tend to start their periods earlier than girls whose fathers live with them.
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August 1, 2019
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Morality Regulates Our Social Physiology
Darwin knew humans can’t survive or thrive individually. Indeed the relation between people and groups is akin to that between genes and bodies.
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July 25, 2019
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The Human Social Organism and a Parliament of Genes
Ten thousand years of cultural evolution has impressively expanded the scale of human cooperation to levels that could not have been imagined by our distant ancestors.
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July 22, 2019
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Master Class: A Conversation with Jonathan Birch About the Equivalence of Theories of Social Evolution
The controversy over group selection that emerged in the 1960’s seemed as if one theory could be rejected in favor of another, but it was really more like monolingual people declaring each other to be confusing and wrong.
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July 18, 2019
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More Perfect UNIONS Must Regulate Their Parts
Every animal society experiences the same tension between the need to cooperate to achieve collective benefits and the disruptive pursuit of lower-level interests.
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[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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