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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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October 8, 2012

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Who’s in Charge Inside Your Head?

And this, in turn, leads to the question: who’s in charge of your own mind?
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October 8, 2012

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What Does It Mean to be Human?

As a new evolutionary process, however, our origin was almost as momentous as the origin of life.
David Sloan Wilson
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October 8, 2012

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Is Inequality in Our Genes?

A forthcoming article by two economists says inequality is in our genes.
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October 8, 2012

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For Some Primates, Survival of the Nicest

Baboons, like people, really do get by with a little help from their friends.
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October 8, 2012

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Is Human Nature Fundamentally Selfish or Altruistic?

Did selfishness — or sharing — drive human evolution?
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October 7, 2012

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Adapted, Yes, but for Whom or What?

An alternative propositions that explain how apparent group-level altruism can evolve.
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October 5, 2012

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Ayn Rand on Human Nature

Rand insists altruism is a pernicious lie that is directly contrary to biological reality. Is it?
Eric Michael Johnson
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October 5, 2012

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Amazonian tribal warfare sheds light on modern violence

New evidence reveals similarities in Amazonian and modern warfare
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October 3, 2012

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Did Human Evolution Favor Individualists or Altruists?

Rand's mistake was in essentializing the distinction between "individualist freedom" vs. "collectivist tyranny" and then transporting it into our human past.
Eric Michael Johnson
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October 3, 2012

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Does Our Evolutionary History Condemn Us to Social Inequality?

Is Inequality Natural?
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October 2, 2012

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Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth

In Yakutia Russia, scientists have found what they believe to be frozen living cells from ancient mammoths.
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October 2, 2012

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The Internet Blowhard’s Favorite Phrase

Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation?
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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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