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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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December 14, 2016
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Introducing the EES Update
The very nature of the scientific process is changing. Social media is now a key science communication tool where scientific opinions are forged, and scientific debates are decided. In recognition of these developments, Kevin Laland and colleagues are delighted to launch the EES Update, the social media package for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis project.
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December 5, 2016
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Does God Exist? Actually, Yes
If an organism is a being, then so is a superorganism and the whole earth is certainly superhuman.
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November 28, 2016
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Saved by Evolution: How A Prison Inmate Turned Science Into A Meaning System
Gary Shepherd is much more than a self-taught scholar. He has actually been saved by science, in the same way that many people are saved by religion.
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November 23, 2016
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Giving Business the Darwin: An Interview with Mark Van Vugt
Business and management can benefit from an evolutionary perspective. The benefits for the economy and quality of life in the workplace could be huge.
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November 21, 2016
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Going For It: When Risk Is Worth It, And When It’s Not
Throughout evolutionary history, humans have had to deal with risk. Risk-sensitivity theory offers an explanation about when some people take excessive risks, and why.
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November 15, 2016
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Cooperation Trumps Selfishness in the Foundress's Dilemma
Aggressive queens may be the ‘winners’ within their groups, but purely cooperative groups outlast those containing aggressive queens.
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November 7, 2016
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The Conversation About Trump Should Consider the Evolution of Men’s Political Psychology
Evolutionary psychologists find that people prefer political leaders who are physically dominant when they believe their group faces an existential threat.
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November 1, 2016
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When Evolutionists Acquire Superhuman Powers: A Conversation with Peter and Rosemary Grant
Two developments helped Peter and Rosemary Grant to peer into the genomes of finches. The first was the invention of tools to measure microsatellite DNA. With more than a dozen genetic loci they were able to characterize each finch with a unique DNA signature.
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October 25, 2016
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Toward A New Social Darwinism
The biggest victim of the stigmatized view of Social Darwinism has been all of us, by preventing the application of evolutionary theory to public policy until very recently.
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October 17, 2016
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Could Cosmological Natural Selection Assign a Function to Life?
Universes might evolve to be ‘selfish’—that is, as if they were interested in propagating their own kind—just as biological organisms act as if they were interested in spreading their own genes.
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October 12, 2016
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Memo To Amazon's Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists
‘Ruthless’ and ‘demanding’ are two descriptors of Amazon's working environment, sink or swim. But Amazon is not alone. Can evolutionary biology shed some light on why competition in the workplace does not alway produce the best outcomes?
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September 20, 2016
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Evolutionary Medicine Comes of Age: An Interview with Randolph Nesse
The evolutionary outlook expands the perspective of health professionals from that of mechanics to that of engineers.
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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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