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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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February 18, 2012
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Back to Basics with Social Theory
Our economy is built on competition – but, really, we are collaborators.
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February 16, 2012
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Turning to Evolution and Ants to Combat Computer Viruses
"The idea is to deploy thousands of different types of digital ants, each looking for evidence of a threat"
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February 16, 2012
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Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
After decades of exclusion from meaningful social and political discourse, themes of social justice are making a serious comeback.
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February 15, 2012
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Mass Extinction Survivors Took 2M Years to Evolve
The discovery challenges the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass extinctions.
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February 11, 2012
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Welcome to Evolution: This View of Life
A Message to Friends of Evolution.The magazine provides an intellectual forum at the professional level. We will strive to portray science as it actually happens: not as a monolithic collection of facts, but as an ongoing process of constructive disagreement that gradually converts hypotheses into durable knowledge.
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February 11, 2012
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Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates
A flurry of recent activity indicates that evolution is beginning to occupy center stage in economic debates—and not a moment too soon.A flurry of recent activity indicates that evolution is beginning to occupy center stage in economic debates—and not a moment too soon.
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February 11, 2012
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Why There Were No Homosexuals in Victorian England (or Iran for that matter)
Gay men don’t have sex that results in children causing their genes not to be passed on: so how come they didn’t “go extinct?”
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February 11, 2012
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Adaptationism and the Study of Political Behavior
For millennia, group boundaries have organized our identities, motivated allegiances, and inspired feats of coordination the likes of which are unparalleled in the animal kingdom.We hypothesize that psychological adaptations exist that structure the way we think about groups, and that regulate cooperative and competitive behavior in the context of specific coalitional dynamics; specifically, we argue that humans are endowed with an evolved “coalitional psychology.”
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February 11, 2012
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Five Short Questions to Gerd Gigerenzer
How can one make better inferences with less knowledge?We have shown that heuristics are often more accurate and faster in uncertain worlds than optimization methods such as multiple regression and non-linear algorithms such as neural networks. The reason is that simple models tend to be more robust than complex models with many free parameters, and are less hurt by overfitting.
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February 11, 2012
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Part 1: Not Just a Just-so Story
“We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.”There are many criticisms of the evolutionary view of human nature, and most of these have been the subject of ongoing debate and commentary. In this series of posts, of which this is the first installment, I will address one of the most pervasive objections, particularly among secular humanists and even some scientists: the notion that we’re telling “just-so stories” about human nature.
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February 10, 2012
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Turning Evolutionary Science into a Political Narrative
A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of GovernmentThe Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government does a remarkably good job of distilling the science into powerful and appealing metaphors, such as the economy as like a garden that requires tending, rather than a machine that runs itself.
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February 10, 2012
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An Unnatural Childhood: An Evolutionary View of Teaching and Parenting
Evolution: This View of Life’s Education Editor Gabrielle Principe talks with WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane on Radio Times about an evolutionarily informed approach to educating and rearing children. In the effort to give kids a leg up in life, parents bombard them with educational toys, rush them to chess, fencing, and piano lessons, and place them in preschool programs that stress academics in the earliest years.
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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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