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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, 2016

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When Democracy Meets the Ghost of Evolution: Why Short Presidents Have Vanished

Size matters in politics: America hasn’t seen a president shorter than 5’7” since William McKinley. A main culprit, unbeknownst to many, comes from voters’ cognitive biases—the work of evolution. And the conundrum took a theatrical turn early this year when Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential hopeful, was spotted wearing a pair of new boots. #bootgate
Lixing Sun
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March 2, 2016

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TVOL Special Edition: What’s Wrong (and Right) About Evolutionary Psychology?

This Special Edition features a diverse collection of articles on evolutionary psychology by proponents, critics, and scientists, with the aim to clarify the subject for everyone, from experts to the general public.
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February 22, 2016

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Was Hitler a Darwinian? No! No! No!

Robert J. Richards examines the widely held view that Darwinian thinking was somehow responsible for the atrocities of the Hitler regime during World War II.
Robert J. Richards
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February 19, 2016

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The five most common misunderstandings about evolution

Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood.
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February 11, 2016

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Using Evolution to Teach Evolution

What does evolution suggest is the best way to teach?
Jason Niedermeyer
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February 11, 2016

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What was Darwin Thinking? A Lesson From The Psychology of Evolution

While you may have heard of evolutionary psychology, this article is actually about the psychology of evolution itself. That is, the study of how evolutionary thinking develops and thrives across our social species, Charles Darwin being one particularly interesting case study.
Dustin Eirdosh
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February 11, 2016

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What Donald Trump & Company Need to Know About Evolution

Why should anyone care about evolution literacy when so many other issues clamor for our attention, such as the economy, inequality, climate change, terrorism, and the refugee crisis? The answer is that evolutionary theory can help us understand and provide solutions to each and every one of these issues.
Michael Price
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February 11, 2016

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Darwin Day 2016: Our Readers Speak Out!

We invited our readers to pitch in and help us celebrate Darwin Day 2016! In addition to remembering the life of the great naturalist, Darwin Day is a time to pay tribute to the values Charles Darwin embodied: intellectual curiosity, close observation, scientific thinking, truth-seeking, and the courage to keep asking the big questions. Check out what people had to say about the importance of evolution!
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February 11, 2016

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Why Darwin’s Tree of Life is a Cognitively Compelling Icon of Evolution

This Darwin Day, consider investing in a tree-of-life tee-shirt or a tree-of-life necklace or even a tree-of-life tattoo. You’ll be honoring Darwin’s legacy while also conveying a cognitively apt representation of evolution to the public at large.
Andrew Shtulman
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February 2, 2016

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BBS, Brains, and the Pain of Altruism: An Interview with Barbara Finlay

The co-editor of the #1 academic Journal in the Behavioral Sciences shares her views on Evolutionary Psychology.
Barbara Finlay
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February 2, 2016

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Review of "Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth"

Professor Turchin’s new book Ultrasociety identifies the causal mechanisms hidden in the twists and turns of human civilisation by quantifying the rise and fall of empires.
Cameron K. Murray
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February 1, 2016

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The New Atheism as a Stealth Religion: Five Years Later

The world appears to be tiring of the New Atheism movement, which burst upon the scene about five years ago with the so-called Four Horsemen: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
David Sloan Wilson
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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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October 21, 2019

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

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October 21, 2019

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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October 20, 2019

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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