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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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August 22, 2013
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How City Living Is Reshaping The Brains And Behavior Of Urban Animals
Humans are creating totally new environments compared to what animals have seen in evolutionary history.
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August 19, 2013
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Stable Vices Revisited: SeaWorld And Early Human World
Our apparent dominance over evolutionary forces as an absolute victory seems as out of touch as a dancing killer whale in a swimming pool. At the very least, we should stop pretending that living the way we do now is ‘normal’ for humans, just as we are starting to realize that there’s nothing normal about an orca living among strangers in a pool and forced to do ridiculous tricks in front of thousands of screaming kids to get food.
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August 15, 2013
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Reconstructing the Original Building Blocks of Life
Scientists in Spain have rebuilt four-billion-year-old thioredoxins that could withstand harsh environments characteristic of early Earth.
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August 14, 2013
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Prehistoric Large Lizard Offers Insight About How Climate Affects Animal Size
Dental fossils of the newly discovered large lizard <em>Barbaturex morrisoni</em> were found in the Pondaung Formation in central Myanmar.
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August 8, 2013
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New ceratopsid Nasutoceratops: “Large-Nosed Horned Face”
The new ceratopsid species, a close relative of the well-known <em>Triceratops</em>, has been dubbed <em>Nasutoceratops titusi</em>, and would have grown approximately fifteen feet long and weighed around 2. 5 tons.
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July 30, 2013
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Status and Stress
New research investigates the complex relationship between status and stress.
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July 30, 2013
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Wings of Gossamer and Stone
Four of the six families of scorpionflies that once lived on Earth died out before the Oligocene Epoch 33 million years ago, leaving us with the two families that exist today. Dr. Archibald has discovered the first specimens of one of those missing families, and dubbed it Eorpidae.
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July 30, 2013
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Darwinism’s Frontier – The Human Mind
Why using an evolutionary approach to understanding the mind is crucial.
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July 25, 2013
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Let’s Shake Up The Social Sciences
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face.
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July 25, 2013
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War Arose Recently, Anthropologists Contend
A battle has broken out among scientists trying to untangle the origins of war.
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July 23, 2013
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Maintaining Microplankton Morphology
Microscopic marine life forms that subsisted on Earth 3 billion years ago have been unearthed in Australia.
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July 23, 2013
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The Scissorhands of the Cambrian
Instead of pincers, this prehistoric arthropod had claws that each featured three long, sharp, boney protrusions, which bring to mind nothing so much as the bladed appendages of Tim Burton’s classic character Edward Scissorhands.
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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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