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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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January 8, 2016
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Cancer and the transformation of life: An Interview with Athena Aktipis
An insightful interview with Athena Aktipis on cancer research from an evolutionary perspective.
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January 5, 2016
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Social Darwinism, A Case of Designed Ventriloquism
The study of social Darwinism in the 19th century shows us when our inner desires are structured in a complete, totalizing, and perfect way that provides continuity and stability to the nation, this is always done at the expense of science.
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January 3, 2016
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Doing Well By Doing Good: A Report on Socially Responsible Businesses
Can businesses do well by doing good? Yes, according to this report headed by EI President David Sloan Wilson. The report provides a much needed alternative to the “Greed is Good” philosophy of orthodox economic theory, which has dominated the curriculum of business schools for over 50 years.
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December 28, 2015
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My New Year’s Resolution: Teach Science to Promote Peace and Prosperity
how can we help ourselves to move toward a peaceful and prosperous future? One that is also more just and equitable? Teach science. That’s right. Teach science early, teach science often, and teach science well.
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December 28, 2015
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Let’s find a compromise between group selection and the selfish gene
The sooner we begin to cooperate within the scientific discipline, the sooner the theory of evolution will be stronger than ever.
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December 20, 2015
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My New Year’s Resolution: To Play
This year, I’m seizing the opportunity to be a better parent. This year, I’m going to play more. Because I want my children to play more.
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December 18, 2015
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Share the Big History of Psychological Flexibility
Can our species collectively cultivate the socio-cultural changes required to make our shared visions of humanistic values become real on a global scale?
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December 15, 2015
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My Resolution: Getting My Stories Straight
Every day teachers build lessons, units, semesters, and school years around a narrative structure. But did you know that these strategies also make sense from an evolutionary perspective as well?
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December 14, 2015
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Adam Smith is stuck without Charles Darwin
If you could change one aspect of your life during 2016, what would make you the happiest? Imagine yourself on December 31, 2016 looking back with satisfaction on 2016. What would it be? Standard economics has an answer.
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December 10, 2015
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Steering Toward the Omega Point: A Roundtable Discussion of Altruism, Evolution, and Spirituality
Is it possible to be spiritual and scientific at the same time?
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December 9, 2015
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TVOL Presents: Evolution, Ritual, & the Holidays
For the holidays, we've asked our authors to tell us how evolution plays a role in the most cherished rituals of the season. If there is grandeur in this view of life, then surely it can be used to reflect upon the feasting, the gift-giving, the music-playing, the story-telling, and the hope of a more auspicious and peaceful new year!
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December 9, 2015
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Star Wars, Christmas, and Constraints on Secular Influence
Why are cultural institutions like Christmas and Star Wars so popular? The answer may provide insight into human nature’s impulse towards supernatural explanation.
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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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