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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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March 2, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Dustin Eirdosh
There is no better outlet for accessible writing that connects the science of evolutionary thinking to pressing and complex societal issues than, This View of Life.
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February 27, 2017
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Fear of Action
The application of provisional knowledge should also be provisional. But the wisdom of any course of action needs to be weighed against its alternatives.
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February 21, 2017
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Why Humanist Values Will Prevail: A Cultural Evolutionary View
Our geopolitical world seems increasingly unstable, and some see this instability as a threat to Humanist values. But do not fear.
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February 16, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Kurt Johnson
Unless we learn how to pivot in a different mental direction, we will experience the frightful evolutionary mismatch between human cognition and psychological peace of mind.
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February 14, 2017
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What Does the Onlooker See? Observing the Religious Action of Others
Evidence that a person’s religious action shapes how others perceive him or her can help us better understand why we see such impressive forms of religious devotion the world over.
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February 11, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Steven C. Hayes
Unless we learn how to pivot in a different mental direction, we will experience the frightful evolutionary mismatch between human cognition and psychological peace of mind.
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February 8, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Joe Brewer
Herein resides the secret to thriving. Be adaptable. Experiment and open yourself up to variation. Let that which works best be inherited by those who come after you.
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February 8, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Christopher Lynn
No matter what you’re up to, what you’re watching on Netflix (and chill?), what you’re reading, it can be related to evolutionary principles.
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February 5, 2017
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Evolution Institute Vice President Peter Turchin featured on Through the Wormhole
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February 4, 2017
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Evolution Institute scientific advisor teach Academy Award winning actor about the origins of religion
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February 3, 2017
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Evo Institute's Peter Turchin's "Ages of Discord" provides a crucial decoder ring for Trump-era social strife
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February 3, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Marcel Harmon
Evolutionary theory is an untapped tool for creating and operating sustainable environments that meet the needs of the people who live, work and play within them.
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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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