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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 19, 2012
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Big Love: Polygamy, Evolution, and the Law
Why should polygamy be illegal and should the law be changed? Two cases are pending in the US Supreme Court and a case considered by the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 2012 upheld the law.
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April 19, 2012
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Westoll Shows Us the Duality of Man by Looking Through the Eyes of Chimpanzees
It will change the way you reflect about man's relationship to the chimpanzee.
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April 17, 2012
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How Orangutan Engineers Build Safe and Comfortable Treetop Beds
"evolution of intelligence can be driven by the need to deal with the mechanical environment, rather than the prevailing orthodoxy that it’s only the social environment that’s important"
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April 17, 2012
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Feathery Dinosaurs Go Large
A new, large tyrannosaur from China suggests puts the concept of "scaly dinosaurs" to the test.
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April 14, 2012
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The Science of Compassion
Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman interviews Professor David DeSteno on the science of compassion
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April 12, 2012
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The Weird World of Biopolitics
It announced what it called “definitive evidence that genetic heritability has some role in the formation of political ideology”
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April 11, 2012
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Born This Way
"Why in the American system were the people who opposed the death penalty almost always the ones who believed that rich people should pay more in taxes?"
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April 11, 2012
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Taking a Micro-look at Coral Relationships
Corals grow in shapes specific to their surroundings, but this plasticity often masks evolutionary relationships. One must look closer...Sahale Casebolt, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, is comparing micro-features of fossil and modern corals with their DNA sequences to reveal evolutionary relationships.
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April 10, 2012
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The Taint of ‘Social Darwinism’
In the interests of historical accuracy, however, it should be clearly recognized that “social Darwinism” has very little to do with the ideas developed by Charles Darwin in “On the Origin of Species.”
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April 10, 2012
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Dinobots
Drexel University's James Tengorra, a mechanical engineer, suggests using dinosaur robots as an efficient way to study dinosaur fossils.
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April 5, 2012
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The Peacock’s Tale: Lessons From Evolution For Effective Signaling in International Politics
Knowing how to send and interpret signals is an essential part of both diplomacy and war.
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April 4, 2012
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How Plants and Animals Can Prepare Us for the Next Big Disaster
We ought to look to nature—and its 3.5 billion years of adaptations for survival—for how to better protect ourselves from terrorist attacks, natural disasters and infectious disease.
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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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