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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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May 26, 2013

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New Dinosaur is Oldest Bone-headed from North America

A new dinosaur find is shedding light on the history of bone-headed dinosaurs, while at the same time reminding scientists of the shortcomings of the fossil record.
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May 24, 2013

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Political Motivations May Have Evolutionary Links to Physical Strength

Men’s upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution.
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May 19, 2013

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How Fairness Depends On Your Social Status

A growing body of research indicates that we do not hold people of different social status to the same standards.A growing body of research indicates that we do not hold people of different social status to the same standards: What counts as fair for a high-status individual does not necessarily count as fair for a low-status individual.
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May 16, 2013

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Soldiers’ faces predict aggression, military rank and number of children

What role has aggression played in human evolution? Can scientists predict who might be more aggressive?
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May 15, 2013

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Geoffrey Miller: ‘Why The Seduction Crowd Picked Up On My Work’

The allure of evolutionary psychology for the dating world.
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May 15, 2013

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Why Humans Took Up Farming: They Like To Own Stuff

Did private property invite agriculture?
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May 12, 2013

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Evolving the Future

We are closer to a science of intentional change than one might think.With three members of the EI’s Scientific Advisory Board, Steven C. Hayes, Anthony Biglan, and Dennis D. Embry, we have written a review article titled “Evolving the Future: Toward a Science of Intentional Change”, which will be published in the commentary journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS).
David Sloan Wilson
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May 8, 2013

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Volcanic Eruptions Timed Close to Mass Extinction

A study recently published in the journal <em>Science</em> puts a time period on the eruptions that is far more concrete than any estimate thus far.
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April 25, 2013

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Biology And The Border

To understand why the border will never be secure, and why it doesn’t matter anyway, we have to turn to other voices.
Rafe Sagarin
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April 25, 2013

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Animal Culture In Monkeys And Whales

We thought humans only have culture. We were wrong.
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April 24, 2013

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Columbus Was Five Hundred Million Years Late

In spite of what our history books might have taught us, it was the euthycarcinoids that first stepped foot on the “New World” – while giant slug-like mollusks slimed ashore and primitive crustaceans fed along the land/water's edge.In spite of what our history books might have taught us, it was the euthycarcinoids that first stepped foot on the “New World” – while giant slug-like mollusks slimed ashore and primitive crustaceans fed along the land/water's edge.
Chris Gass
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April 10, 2013

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Crisis Mapping, Bio Blitzes, and Google Flu Trends

Recent projects that exemplify an emerging revolution in how we interact with and understand a dynamic and complex planet.
Rafe Sagarin
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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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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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