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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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February 1, 2017
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A Groundhog Day Lesson About Fake News
What can groundhogs teach us about our fake news epidemic?
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February 1, 2017
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Xenophobia in the Light of Evolution: On the Origins of Anti-Immigration Sentiment
Besides racial prejudice, what else are there behind xenophobia? Among the evolved human instincts, we can find at least two for the anti-immigration sentiment: territoriality and the endowment effect.
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January 25, 2017
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The Freemasons: Prosocial Groups of the Enlightenment Era. A Conversation with Margaret C. Jacob
How can cooperative forms of governance overcome disruptive self-serving behaviors? The history of Freemasonry may hold the answer.
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January 17, 2017
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Orchestrating the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Research Project: An Interview with Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller's projects revolve around the idea that plasticity – that is, environmental effects on phenotypes – can initiate and direct evolutionary diversification.
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January 16, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Guru Madhavan
For a world struggling to live with its own pace, policies, and perplexities, This View of Life is a great place to gain fresh insights.
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January 16, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Clay Farris Naff
The view of life that Charles Darwin unveiled has endless lessons to teach us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes not, but none more important that those about ourselves.
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January 12, 2017
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Stored fat is a feat of evolution – and your body will fight to keep it
Finding it hard to lose weight? Here's why this may be.
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January 10, 2017
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Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Evolution: Tear Down This Wall! A Conversation with Robert Paul
Robert Paul is one of a very few cultural anthropologists who is contributing his extensive ethnographic knowledge to the modern study of cultural evolution.
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January 5, 2017
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The Riddle—and the Range—of Art: Brian Boyd on the Evolution of the Arts from the Pleistocene to the Present
The celebrated literary scholar Brian Boyd takes us on a tour of an amazing museum exhibit and other happenings at the interface of art and evolution.
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December 29, 2016
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TVOL1000 Profile: Rory Sutherland
Business today is in great need of "the minds of naturalists" and evolutionary thinkers of every kind, which is why TVOL is always a must-read for Rory.
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December 29, 2016
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TVOL1000 Profile: Barbara Oakley
In Barbara Oakley's popular MOOC, Learning How to Learn, they used dozens of insights drawn from evolutionary findings to help induce learners to stick with, and learn from, online materials. Knowledge of evolution, in other words, helped them build the world’s most popular course.
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December 19, 2016
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A Conversation with Kim Sterelny about the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
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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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