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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 9, 2012
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Natural Security: Evolutionary Insights For 21st Century Threats
The core idea is to use insights from biology and evolution to tackle an empirical challenge we face in the real worldThe Natural Security project uses similar evolutionary principles to offer a fresh perspective on our understanding of security threats, as well as to design effective responses to those threats. While evolution may seem to be a simplistic paradigm, especially applied to complex issues such as human conflict, this simplicity is its power.
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February 9, 2012
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What’s in a Song? All You Need Is Love… and then some!
Could the lyrics to hit songs contain more embedded references to reproductive success – and the kinds of problems our ancestors would have faced to attain it?
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February 9, 2012
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Natural Security: Evolutionary Insights For 21st Century Threats
The core idea is to use insights from biology and evolution to tackle an empirical challenge we face in the real worldThe Natural Security project uses similar evolutionary principles to offer a fresh perspective on our understanding of security threats, as well as to design effective responses to those threats. While evolution may seem to be a simplistic paradigm, especially applied to complex issues such as human conflict, this simplicity is its power.
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February 7, 2012
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Chauvet and Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Perhaps no other surviving artifacts of human prehistory are cloaked in beauty and mystery quite like the cave paintings at Chauvet, Lascaux.
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February 3, 2012
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An Israeli professor’s ‘Eureqa’ moment
Researchers created a computer program that generates mathematical formulas which explain various scientific phenomena.
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January 13, 2012
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US will not finance new research on chimps
The National Institute of Health suspended all new grants for biomedicial research on chimps.
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January 13, 2012
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Deciphering communication: learning from robots
A joint research project conducted at UNIL and EPFL enabled the scientists to follow the evolution of communication in 100 group
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January 5, 2012
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Robots: An Evolving Breed
Robots need “adaptive behavior” to accommodate changing circumstances
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December 4, 2011
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The Internet: Triumph of human evolution
Technology should be seen as part of our planet’s grand evolutionary narrative.
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October 14, 2011
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Brain structure and political orientations - A study co-authored by actor Colin Firth
Colin Firth is having a pretty good year. First he won an Oscar for the King's Speech, and now he also has a paper out in Current Biology!
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September 13, 2011
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Scientists strive to create inorganic life
Scottish team of scientists are hoping their will enable them to create life out of inorganic molecules.
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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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