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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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May 17, 2018
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Are Large-Scale Societies Outliers When It Comes To Core Elements Of Moral Judgment?
Most comparative studies of human moral judgment have been restricted to large-scale, industrialized populations, but critical tests of putative universals must include small-scale societies.
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May 17, 2018
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Is there a universal morality?
“…ethics has to do with how to arrive at as harmonious social interactions as it is humanly possible.”
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Our Modern Moral Predicament
The outer limits of moral possibility are established by the emotional tendencies that prepare us to be morality-making beings.
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Quantum Chimpanzees: Do Watched Primates Change Their Behavior?
In particle physics, the mere act of looking at an electron changes its direction of movement. Could observing primates also change the outcome of what is observed?
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May 8, 2018
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Constructing Our Niches: The Ultimate/Proximate Relationship Relative to Planning, Design, Construction, and Operations
How do we create an overall building process rooted in an evolutionary framework?
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April 17, 2018
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Constructing Our Niches: The Ultimate/Proximate Relationship Relative to Codes and Standards
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Constructing Our Niches: The Ultimate/Proximate Relationship Relative to Codes and Standards
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April 10, 2018
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Learning from Gossip about Free Speech
Gossip is highly moral, sophisticated, and sensitive to context. Can we use this to improve our communication online and in society at large?
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April 6, 2018
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The Mathematics of Kindness
Altruistic behavior seems abundant in nature, but how did it evolve? George Price had the answer nearly fifty years ago.
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April 4, 2018
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The Business World Needs Multilevel Selection (MLS) Theory
MLS theory makes it crystal clear that unless competition is appropriately structured and refereed, it can do a lot more harm than good.
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April 4, 2018
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The Joy of X
As a marketer, I obviously value any opportunity better to understand ourselves and our true, evolved social nature. It is potentially a huge source of competitive advantage and differentiation.
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April 4, 2018
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The Evolved Decision Maker
What behavioural economists neglected to answer is the ultimate question: why do people possess these psychological dispositions? Answering ultimate questions leads one to evolution, as the human brain has been honed by the forces of natural selection.
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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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