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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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April 11, 2016
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Why did early human societies practice violent human sacrifice?
Is is possible that human sacrifice might have served some social function, and actually benefited at least some members of a society?
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April 8, 2016
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Doping to Win? Cheating and the Sporting Mind
Like politicians’ views of the truth, athletes believe that the morality of drug use is a matter of perspective, where ethics bends to pragmatism.
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April 5, 2016
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How WEIRD is Donald Trump?
Let’s hope future DNA studies don’t show a lot of Trump genes in the population.
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March 29, 2016
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On Junk Diets and Junk Science: What’s the evidence for and against the paleo diet?
Adopting an evolutionary framework, based on sound scientific empirical work, is our best way forward to understand human health in the modern world.
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March 24, 2016
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How’s Your Ancestral Health?
Are humans driven to behave in ways that are detrimental to our wellbeing by adaptations to past environments?
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March 17, 2016
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Examining Real-World Issues through a Scientific Lens
EI’s belief is that by better understanding the stumbling blocks that can impede today’s learning process, we can further inspire solutions that minimize such barriers.
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March 17, 2016
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Did Darwin Read the Sports Section?
What can sports teach us about evolution?
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March 17, 2016
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Should Evolution be Taught in Elementary School?
Nearly half of the U.S. population rejects evolution. Recent research suggests that teaching evolution to elementary aged children may help tip the scales.
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March 11, 2016
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Evolution of moral outrage: I'll punish your bad behavior to make me look good
What makes human morality unique?
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March 8, 2016
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Evolution Shows Us That Nurture & Love Are Fundamental To Mental Health
Evolution helps explain why the need for love and nurture is key in creating a childhood that makes humans happy and productive throughout their lives.
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March 4, 2016
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The Ends of War: Human Evolution and the Origins of Inter-Group Violence
If we want to understand the beliefs and behavior of people locked in deadly conflict with each other, we first need to consider these traits in their natural context, and that means understanding war in human evolution.
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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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