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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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July 11, 2016

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When the Strong Outbreed the Weak: An Interview with William Muir

Muir’s experiments reveal a tremendous naiveté in the idea that creating a good society is merely a matter of selecting the “best” individuals. A good society requires members working together to create what cannot be produced alone, or at least to refrain from exploiting each other.
William M. Muir
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July 8, 2016

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What we make and do can evolve with no end in sight

A simple, but powerful law, The Law of Effect, suggests that organisms tend to repeat the successful behaviors they perform and to refrain from repeating the unsuccessful ones.
Ed Wasserman
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June 29, 2016

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The Origin of The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: An Interview with Massimo Pigliucci

Are we witnessing a new synthesis for evolutionary theory?
Massimo Pigliucci
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June 27, 2016

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Evolutionary Medicine: The Top Ten Questions

Evolution explains why we have traits that leave us vulnerable to disease, as well as why so many other aspects of the body work so well.
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June 16, 2016

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Evolution of Human Fatherhood

Seven take-home points helping guide us from early forefathers to today’s dads.
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June 3, 2016

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America Needs to Steal Back the Nordic Model by Thom Hartmann

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May 30, 2016

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Evolutionary Biology’s Master Craftsman: An Interview with Richard Lenski

An interview with Richard Lenski, who has become world renowned for presiding over the longest running evolutionary experiment of all time, on the bacterium E. coli, which has now exceeded 65,000 generations.
Richard Lenski
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May 10, 2016

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Sam Brownback gutted Kansas: How America’s worst governor and an ultra-conservative ideology wrecked an entire state

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May 10, 2016

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Evolving Organizations

Are the past systems humans have used to manage problems enough to deal with the complex environments we find ourselves in today?
Pablo Reyes Arellano
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May 6, 2016

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Evolutionary Sports Economics

Are sports evolving?
Jason Potts
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May 6, 2016

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Half The World Lives In Cities. Did We Get Here Thanks To Religion?

Are you more likely to be generous toward people of your own religion? Your answer may depend on where you live.
Matthew Polistina
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April 23, 2016

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What did Shakespeare understand about the human mind?

Shakespeare understood, implicitly, what modern psychology has found: that human beings have a habit of making decisions based more on their intuitions and emotions than on their cognitive reasoning.
Neema Parvini
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh

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

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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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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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