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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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December 9, 2020

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The Epidemic and the Epistemic: An Exercise in Evolutionary Sociology

The present pandemic is a stark reminder that humans are, first and foremost, biological beings – as vulnerable to environmental and evolved threats as is any other organism.
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December 7, 2020

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A War Between the Economy and Earth

How and why did humans become collectively configured around an economic system that places them at odds with the planetary boundaries of the Earth?
Lisi Krall
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November 9, 2020

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Promoting Cooperation in Schools Using Norms and Processes from our Evolutionary History

Cooperative learning can help to establish social conditions that are similar to those that brought about cooperation in early humans.
Mark J. Van Ryzin
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November 5, 2020

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Elinor’s Classroom: Developing a Connected Concept of the Commons for 21st Century Civic Education

A new culture of interdisciplinary teaching is emerging in regards to the cultural evolution of school communities as agents of change through social learning.
Dustin Eirdosh
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November 2, 2020

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Human Nature at Work with Andrew O'Keeffe

TVOL guest host Max Beilby talks with Andrew O'Keeffe about his work helping leaders make better sense of the human dimension of their role, so that they can work with, rather than against, human nature.
Max Beilby
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November 2, 2020

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The Study of Nature in Early America: A Conversation with Lee Dugatkin

Darwin was an integral part of the Enlightenment and was avidly pursued by early Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and the portrait artist Charles Willson Peale, who created the most famous museum of the Revolutionary era.
Lee Alan Dugatkin
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November 2, 2020

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Managing the Human Animal, with Nigel Nicholson and Max Beilby

Max Beilby and Nigel Nicholson discuss the application of evolutionary psychology to the world of business and management.
Nigel Nicholson
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November 2, 2020

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Evolution Does Not Explain Tyranny: COVID-19 Could Have Led To Many Fewer Deaths If Tyranny Had Been Less Prevalent in Washington, D.C.

In times of public health crisis, political leaders need to suppress dysfunctional personality traits and instead rely on and uphold public health experts.
Richard Devine
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October 26, 2020

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From the Middle: Sites of Culture, Cooperation, and Trust in Risk Society

Democracy will live or die depending on its ability to respond to twenty-first-century hazards.
Lukas Szrot
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October 12, 2020

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Evolutionary Biologists Need to Know about Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum

Lee Alan Dugatkin
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October 12, 2020

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How Covid-19 Reminds Us We Are More Alike Than Different

Genetic differences between individuals within groups are much greater than any average differences between groups of individuals.
Rosemary L. Hopcroft
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September 14, 2020

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For God’s Sake! What’s All This Fuss About a Virus?

The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a simple reminder that the success of Homo sapiens has been essentially a cooperative enterprise.
Andrew Atkinson
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh

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March 28, 2020

Evolutionary Mismatch in the Workplace with Mark van Vugt and Max Beilby

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March 6, 2020

PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A Conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass

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February 26, 2020

Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A Conversation About Primate Societies with Joan Silk

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January 29, 2020

Dugnad as Part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk

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October 21, 2019

Peter Gray on Education as a Biological Phenomenon, Learning from Hunter-Gatherers, and Letting Children Lead

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October 21, 2019

Lynette Shaw on Social Constructionism and Finding Academic Common Ground

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October 21, 2019

Elliott Sober on the Origins of Multilevel Selection

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October 20, 2019

Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures

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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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