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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 4, 2013

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Generalizing The Core Design Principles For The Efficacy of Groups

Challenging the prevailing wisdom that top-down or market-based approaches are necessary for managing environmental resources.
David Sloan Wilson
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July 4, 2013

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Phylogenetic Footprints in Organizational Behavior

How the evolutionary tool kit is useful for understanding business firms, government agencies, or universities.
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July 4, 2013

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Prevention Science, The Tobacco Industry and Market Ideology

Evolutionary perspective suggests that there may be limiting conditions such that selfish pursuit is only beneficial to others in some circumstances.
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July 4, 2013

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The Role Of Writing And Recordkeeping In The Cultural Evolution Of Human Cooperation

How literate systems facilitate empathy towards strangers.
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July 4, 2013

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The Evolution of Trust

Evolution can provide ultimate explanations for seemingly irrational human behavior.
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July 3, 2013

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Economics Special Issue

The emerging new paradigm for improving public policy.In a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, more than two dozen scholars from around the world have written 13 articles with the important and difficult goal of making economics better.
Terence Burnham
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July 3, 2013

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Bones I Have Known: Getting Students Excited About Paleontology

Why do non-geology majors become so engaged in learning about their earth, and in particular about fossils, paleontology, and the evolution of life?Why do non-geology majors become so engaged in learning about their Earth, and in particular about fossils, paleontology, and the evolution of life?
Mark Lawler
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July 3, 2013

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The Evolution Of Self-Organization In A Small, Complex, Economy

The decision making rules of fisherman.
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June 29, 2013

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Painful and Extreme Rituals Enhance Social Cohesion

Painful and extreme rituals may enhance social cohesion.
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June 29, 2013

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Good Intentions and the Road to Hell

Pathological altruism can counterintuitively lead to pervasive problems in public policy.
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June 25, 2013

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Economics Is A Lost Field

A field cannot be more lost than to be clueless on its most important issues.Economists are divided on both fiscal and monetary policy, the most important economic issues of the day. The divide is on the direction of policy, not on some detail.
Terence Burnham
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June 21, 2013

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Misconception & Menopause, Media & Public Reception, And The Larry King Effect

Scientists respond to the media buzz about their research that went viral.While scientists increasingly have become interested in publicizing science and publishing popular books, media have played important roles in translating science from the field or laboratory to the public domain. Thus, scientists, media, and the public flanked by industry, business, and government define the consortium of producers, consumers, and sponsors of discovery.
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh

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March 28, 2020

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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