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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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Universal morality is obscured by evolved morality
Evolved morality not only obscures universal morality but also creates an aversion to improvements to humans that would align our intuitions with actions that promote sentient well-being.
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Moral Universals, Moral Particulars and Tinbergen’s Four Questions
Tinbergen’s four questions apply to any variation-and-selection process, including but not restricted to genetic evolution. Accordingly, they can be insightful for the study of moral universals and particulars as products of human genetic and cultural evolution.
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May 17, 2018
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Do Universal Moral Intuitions Shape and Constrain Culturally Prevalent Moral Norms?
Universal moral intuitions are like anchors, invisible from the surface but immovably secured to the seabed, whereas culturally prevalent moral norms are like buoys on the surface of the water, available to direct observation.
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May 17, 2018
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On Morals, Rituals, and Obligations
“… breach of obligation may be ‘one of the few, if not, indeed, the only act that is always and everywhere held to be immoral’.”
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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 face of a leader: Honest signal or a mismatch?
When encountering a person we do not look at their feet, torso, or shoulders; we are compelled to first look at them in the face and instantly judge them.
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April 4, 2018
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The Gendered Organisation
The classic pyramidal hierarchy, so beloved by men, is increasingly unfit for purpose.
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Building trust in diverse groups
Mental models that support our choice of leaders suffer from biases inherited from our evolutionary past, which are frequently mismatched with our current environments that change faster than our brains.
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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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