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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 11, 2014
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Mainstream science of morality contradicts Sam Harris’ central claim
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February 7, 2014
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Books are Maps of Nature, Screens are Maps of Nothing
Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.
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February 4, 2014
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Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind
Jonathan Haidt analyzes the shortcomings of human reasoning and bets $10,000 that Harris will not be swayed by reason alone.The New Atheist Sam Harris recently offered to pay $10,000 to anyone who can disprove his arguments about morality. Jonathan Haidt analyzes the nature of reasoning, and the ease with which reason becomes a servant of the passions. He bets $10,000 that Harris will not change his mind.
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January 30, 2014
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A History of Horses
A newly-discovered ancient horse species lived about 4.4 million years ago.
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January 29, 2014
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Solution to Anthropocene Controversy in Sight
Erle Ellis from the University of Maryland proposes a global approach to investigating the true origins of the Anthropocene.
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January 22, 2014
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Profiles in Evolutionary Moral Psychology: Richard Joyce
What he believes evolutionary biology offers moral philosophy.
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January 16, 2014
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A Wish for Wings that Work
Like the modern ostrich or penguin, Habib proposes <em>Archaeopteryx</em> may have had ancestors that could fly but then adapted to a lifestyle that did not require it any longer.
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January 15, 2014
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Profiles In Evolutionary Moral Psychology: Michael McCullough
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January 12, 2014
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Trustworthy People Are Seen As More Similar To Ourselves
We trust people based as much on how they look, how similar to us, than other factors, but our perception of looks can vary with social interaction.
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December 27, 2013
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Man’s Best Friend: Decoded
Previous analysis of fragments of dog and dog relative DNA pointed to the Middle East as the geographic origin of the first dogs. A recent study released in <em>Nature Communications</em> is now pointing instead to an origination from East Asia, specifically, southern China.
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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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