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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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April 10, 2013
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Is All Life Due to an Alien Energy Source?
A group of researchers is simulating primordial Earth conditions to discover how life came to use phosphorous as its energy storage source. Most interesting--this phosphorous probably came from outer space.
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April 9, 2013
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Learning from Mother Nature About Teaching Our Children: Ten Simple Truths
Scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin's theory of evolution.Education isn’t working well in America, despite billions of dollars and everyone’s best intentions. Not too long ago, scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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April 9, 2013
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Does Penis Size Matter? A New Study Says Yes
How important is penis size?
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March 30, 2013
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Primatologist Frans de Waal Responds To His New Atheist Critics
Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives.Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives
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March 28, 2013
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Punishing Corporate Cheaters: What Does Human Morality Have To Do With It?
We seem to be unable to punish bankers for their scandalous behaviour.
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March 22, 2013
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More Power Leads to More Dehumanization
People assigned to positions of power tend to dehumanize those in less powerful positions even when the roles are randomly assigned.
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March 22, 2013
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Left, Right: The Brain Science of Politics
Political inclinations and ideological leanings may be tied to innate factors like a person’s biology, physiology and genetics.
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March 22, 2013
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Did Evolution Give Us Inflammatory Disease?
Researchers demonstrate that some variants in our genes that could put a person at risk for inflammatory diseases have been the target of natural selection over the course of human history.
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March 21, 2013
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Bottom-Up Morality: We’re Not Good Because Of God
Is built into our species?
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March 20, 2013
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How Did This Extinct Wolf Come to Inhabit Islands?
Darwin still had time to puzzle out a mystery that would continue to plague biologists for hundreds of years: how did such a large mammal get to an island so far out to sea? Even more perplexing: how did it become the only one that did?
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March 18, 2013
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Is Religion Useful? A Test Involving Common Pool Resource Groups
Far from “poisoning everything”, religions often plays an integral role in regulating the practical aspects of life.Religion puzzles the nonbeliever in part because it seems to lack utility. How can belief in supernatural agents and costly practices such as ritual sacrifice produce practical benefits?
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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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