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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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June 18, 2013
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Free To Learn: Does The Hunter-Gatherer Style Of Education Work?
There is no lack of criticisms against our education system, but why would a psychologist advocate for a return to Pleistocene era principles?
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June 17, 2013
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Mammoth Blood Preserved in Ancient Remains Brings Hopes of Cloning
A group of Russian scientists have discovered 10,000-year-old mammoth remains from Siberia, finding uniquely preserved tissue and blood.
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June 13, 2013
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Here He Goes Again: Sam Harris’s Falsehoods
An intellectual debate about the nature of religious belief and violence. Anthropologist Scott Atran responds to New Atheist Sam Harris.Harris’s views on religion ignore the considerable progress in cognitive studies on the subject over the last two decades, which show that core religious beliefs do not have fixed propositional content .
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June 11, 2013
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How The Human Face Might Look In 100,000 Years
What will we look like 100,000 years from now?
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June 10, 2013
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Studies on Crocodile Diversity Discover Two New Species in Venezuela
An international group of paleontologists revealed in <em>Nature Communications</em> that, at one point during the late Miocene, at least seven crocodylic species lived sympatrically.
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June 8, 2013
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Fast Life Histories, Not Pathogens, Account For Variation In Human Cognition And Social Behavior
The relationship between risky environments and life history.
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June 8, 2013
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The Evolutionary Power Of Ritual
Religious rituals are effective because they are seemingly defying rationality!In 2003, Richard Sosis and Eric Bressler achieved a breakthrough by applying the “costly signaling theory”. According to this theory, religious rituals are able to promote intragroup cooperation exactly by bringing up purely or partially non-rational behaviors – signaling to onlookers that true believers are at hand.
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June 7, 2013
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Defeat Hackers With Biomimicry
Given that digital information is more central than ever, it's worrisome that the history of data security is littered with failure.
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June 6, 2013
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How to Really Eat Like A Hunter-Gatherer: Why The Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked
We are not biologically identical to our Paleolithic predecessors, nor do we have access to the foods they ate.
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June 5, 2013
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Breadwinner Moms: Progress Toward Equity Or Sign Of The End Times?
Few subjects polarize as neatly along conservative-progressive lines as the changing structure of the family.The end of times, it would appear, is upon us. At least that’s the word from the Fox network. The signs manifest as a Pew Research Center report, published last week, showing that mothers are now the sole or primary provider in forty percent of United States households with children.
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May 28, 2013
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Seeking Sasquatch With Science
A sizable amount of publically available data exists that organizes and quantifies Bigfoot sightings.
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May 27, 2013
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The Hamilton Fauna Revisited: A New Approach for Studying Ecological Stability
The Devonian Hamilton fauna has always been a somewhat of a paleontological puzzle. A new study uses a novel approach to determine if this Devonian ecosystem was stable.The Devonian Hamilton fauna has always been a somewhat of a paleontological puzzle. A new study uses a novel approach to determine if this Devonian ecosystem was stable.
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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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