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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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February 5, 2018
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Anthropologist Peter Turchin explains how the seeds of Brexit unrest were planted during the Carolingian Empire
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February 3, 2018
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Evolution Institute project Seshat on New Scientist: The database that is rewriting history to predict the future
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January 29, 2018
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Evolution as a Problem Solver in Computer Science
In computer science, there are many problems that are known to be "hard." What this means is that there is no efficient method to solve such problems exactly. However, we can use a clever computer algorithm to evolve an approximate solution, using ideas from real biological evolution.
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January 19, 2018
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Constructing Our Niches: Introducing the Importance of Cooperation and Ultimate Vs. Proximate Design Features
Collective and sustainable behavior is partially dependent on maintaining higher levels of cooperation among those involved, from the boardroom to the global stage.
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January 12, 2018
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Religious Epigenetics
How can conservative and progressive Christian denominations churches be so different from each other, despite sharing the same sacred text? For the same reason that skin and liver cells can be so different, despite sharing the same DNA.
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January 4, 2018
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Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution published in Nature
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January 4, 2018
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Are Modern Businesses a Mismatch?
The current appeal of boss-less organizations may be more than just a fad; instead it probably reflects a deeper desire for the organizational structures of the past.
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January 3, 2018
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Does Natural Selection Explain Why You Exist?
Over the long history of life on earth, the most consequential events have been those in which organisms came to embody new levels or modalities of existence.
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January 2, 2018
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Peter Turchin for Bloomberg: Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Society Frays
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January 2, 2018
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What Does it Mean to be Multicellular?
By studying the transition to multicellularity in a controlled laboratory setting, scientists can gain detailed insight into how these transitions might have occurred in the past.
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December 25, 2017
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How to Evolve a Religion
Religious naturalists understand that science and religion aren’t opposed ideologies, rather, both are valuable ways of thinking that allow us to navigate an immeasurably complicated world.
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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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