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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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March 13, 2019
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Generating Testable Hypotheses of Evolutionary Mismatch
Models of ancestral environments are hard to construct and as a result such hypotheses are plagued with speculation. Where can we draw the evidence from?
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March 6, 2019
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What All Theories of Social Evolution Share In Common
If prosocial behaviors are vulnerable to more self-serving behaviors in every group where both types of behaviors occur, then how can they evolve by natural selection?
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February 28, 2019
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It’s Time To See the Light (Another Example of Evolutionary Mismatch)
The biological clock prepares our bodies for predictable events, like sleep and energy intake. Misalignment of the biological clock may have serious metabolic consequences.
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February 25, 2019
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A Mother's Mismatch: Why Cancer Has Deep Evolutionary Roots
While cancer is not exclusively a disease of modern environments, many modern environmental changes influence our disease susceptibility.
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February 22, 2019
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Functional Frivolity: The Evolution and Development of the Human Brain Through Play
Play is not frivolous but is an adaptation designed to guide proper cognitive development in human children.
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February 19, 2019
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Why Teleology is the Elephant in Evolutionary Theory’s Room
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February 6, 2019
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Can Evolution be Understood as a Conscious Process?
My approach is explored by considering Aristotelian Causal Categories, focusing on Final Cause. I then consider the possibility of understanding this question from an ‘internalist’ perspective.
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January 30, 2019
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One Culture, Two Cultures? How Many Cultures, How Long?
When asked “Can Evolution be Conscious?” reactions can occur aptly reflecting the “informal definition” (as stated in most dictionaries) of schizoid, that is, “having inconsistent or seemingly contradictory elements.”
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January 25, 2019
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Fa’asamoa of Tattooing and Football: Conservatism and Adaptation in Samoan Cultural Evolution
Two new books published in 2018 emphasize the role of fa’asamoa in amplifying “sticky” cultural concepts or memes—football and tattooing—in cultural adaptation.
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January 23, 2019
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Can Evolution Be Conscious of Itself? Yes, It Can!
Human beings are subject to the workings of evolution and are also aware of their role as shapers of the environment so as to consciously direct evolutionary change.
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January 18, 2019
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The Consciousness of Detachment and the Detachment of Consciousness
To speak of an evolution of consciousness as a natural event is to be committed to the idea that consciousness can be a further expression of something which is not yet consciousness but is a prerequisite for the possibility of consciousness.
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April 26, 2020
Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh
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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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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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