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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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February 24, 2022

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 3. Naïve Group Selectionism

Pre-Darwinian notions did not come to an abrupt halt with the advent of Darwin's theory. They linger on.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 21, 2022

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Conscious Cultural Evolution Takes Root in Latin America

A new project in Latin America draws upon an unexpected source of insight: Darwin’s theory of evolution.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 17, 2022

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What Will It Take To Decolonize Ecology?

Adriana Romero-Olivares
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February 15, 2022

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 2. The Original Problem

Darwin observed that groups of prosocial individuals will survive and reproduce better than groups of antisocial individuals.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 12, 2022

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Introducing the ProSocial Commons

ProSocial World is excited to introduce a new experimental support and engagement group called the ProSocial Commons.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 11, 2022

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The Solution To Climate Change Is To Talk About Climate Change

Maintaining optimism in the face of what is an overwhelming climate crisis is absolutely necessary, even vital.
Rebecca Huntley
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February 8, 2022

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection

A prologue for the Twelfth Anniversary Edition.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 8, 2022

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 1. Why It Is Needed

What happens when science doesn't work as it should? Such is the case for the controversy over group selection.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 3, 2022

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Towards a New Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans and Nature

It is a sad reality that recognition for many scientists depends on their nationality and how much exposure they have obtained from the Global North rather than the intrinsic quality of their scientific research.
Shubhobroto Ghosh
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January 27, 2022

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Changing Social Norms Could Create a Green Future

What can we do, from an evolutionary psychological perspective, to use our hunger for status for a better climate?
Mark van Vugt
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January 21, 2022

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Joe Rogan Has Built His Career on Anti-Science Misinformation. I Should Know Because I Was On the Receiving End

Joe Rogan is one example of a wider problem in our age of misinformation.
Alison A. Elgart
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January 19, 2022

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A Rebuttal to “The Complicated Legacy of E. O. Wilson”

Wilson’s insights speak for themselves and his dozens of worthy titles allow us to grapple with his actual ideas directly.
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April 26, 2020

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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