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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 22, 2013
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Brain scans reveal possible links to reoffending
Researchers studying brain scans of inmates find a possible link to risks of future criminal behavior.
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July 22, 2013
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Are some problems too big for democracy?
When you have lost a democratic election to someone who fights against your sacred values, there is no consolation in the thought that you can barter over policy details in the legislature.
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July 16, 2013
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Why Evolutionary Science Is The Key To Moral Progress
Given that morality is so important, you’d think we’d want to make sure that we were doing it right.Given that morality is so important, you’d think we’d want to make sure that we were doing it right. That is, you’d think that we would insist on knowing why we have the beliefs that we have, how those beliefs came into being, who they benefit, and where they are likely to lead us.
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July 15, 2013
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Education, Neoliberal Culture, and the Brain
“There is a Mr. Hyde inside each of us. What we have to do is prevent the conditions that will bring the monster forth.”
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July 9, 2013
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How Did Ancient Ecosystems React to Climate Change?
The Last Glacial Maximum impacted ecosystems and drove many species to extinction.
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July 9, 2013
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The Ears They Leave Behind
A new fossil belonging to an ancient fish is so complete that it is one of the few that still contained its tiny otoliths, or ear bones.
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July 8, 2013
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Human Herding: How People are Like Guppies
To what extent can human herding be explained in terms of the same goals that motivate herding in other social species?
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July 6, 2013
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The Evolution of Hyperbolic Discounting: Implications for Truly Social Valuation of the Future
The question of discounting not only moves quickly from economics to ethics, it also leads to the search for the “deep structures” of human society and human reasoning.
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July 4, 2013
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Toward A Neo-Darwinian Synthesis Of Neoclassical And Behavioral Economics
Economics is in the midst of a quiet crisis having undergone a schism forty years ago, and showing no signs of healing.
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July 4, 2013
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A Naturalistic Theory of Economic Organization
Why are humans such a cooperative species, and what does the answer to this question mean for our understanding of the organization of modern firms and societies?
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July 4, 2013
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Evolution As A General Theoretical Framework For Economics And Public Policy
The evolutionary paradigm should be consulted by people across the political spectrum.
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July 4, 2013
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Darwin’s Invisible Hand: Market Competition, Evolution And The Firm
Designing effective organizations using Darwinian selection.The key [to designing an effective organization] is not to strike some (inefficient) compromise between the interests of individuals and their group, but to work with the grain of human nature to bring individual and group interests into alignment.
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh
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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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