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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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September 15, 2012

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Conflict and ‘Boom-Bust’ Explain Humans’ Rapid Evolution

What explains the extraordinarily fast rate of evolution in the human lineage over the past two million years?
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September 14, 2012

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The Search for the Origin of Life

Recent scientific efforts are bringing us closer to an understanding of the earliest life on Earth, and to the fielding of a theory that explains the dawn of our earliest ancestor.The cases of the earliest discovered evidences for life on Earth, if biological in origin, constrain the timing for the emergence of life to sometime before 3.4 billion years ago.
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September 13, 2012

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Joseph Stiglitz. The Price of Inequality. Cultural Evolution. The Evolution Institute.

Right now Ayn Randism has a much greater sway than evolutionary thinking.
Peter Turchin
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September 13, 2012

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Twilight of the Elites. Or the Unintended Consequences of Meritocracy

How elite competition can lead to unequal outcomes.
Peter Turchin
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September 12, 2012

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Researchers Seek New Drugs Through Evolution and Local Plant Lore

Drug-producing plants easier to spot with a knowledge of evolutionary history.
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September 12, 2012

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Science as a (Fragile) Cultural Adaptation

A broad view of cultural evolution reveals science to be very unusual, very recent, and very fragile.
David Sloan Wilson
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September 11, 2012

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IT Ain’t Necessarily So

How much do evolutionary stories reveal about the mind?
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September 9, 2012

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Why Fathers Really Matter

What if it turned out, though, that expectant fathers molded babies, too, and not just by way of genes?
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September 9, 2012

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How Culture Drove Human Evolution

Why we need to stop distinguishing cultural and biological evolution as separate.
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September 8, 2012

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Evolution Could Explain the Placebo Effect

Scientists have discovered a possible evolutionary explanation for the placebo effect with new evidence.
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September 8, 2012

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Major Forum Clarifies Nature of Cultural Evolution

Over forty top scientists discuss the topic of cultural evolution.
David Sloan Wilson
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September 8, 2012

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Study Demonstrates Evolution of Stereotypes

Stereotypes form and evolve over time through social transmission of information, similar to the way in which languages evolve.
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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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