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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.

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March 16, 2013

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When Humans Started Drinking Beer

Did beer help us become a more social species?
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March 13, 2013

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Ancient Caimans Help Place Panama

A new study describes two new species of Crocodilians that lived in Panama when it was still an island during the Miocene Epoch twenty million years ago, long before it connected North and South America.
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March 6, 2013

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To Become More Adaptable, Take a Lesson from Biology

Even the best of us are horrible at predicting the future.
Rafe Sagarin
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March 5, 2013

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Intricately Preserved Fossil Is Helping Scientists Paint a Picture of Early Arthropod Evolution

In Southwestern China, a 520 million-year-old arthropod fossil known as a fuxhianhuiid was discovered.
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March 1, 2013

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Dismantling The Paradigm In The Social Sciences

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics.
Robert Kadar
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February 26, 2013

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Episodes from the History of Paleontology and Geology Chapter Two: Most Popular Dinosaur Ever?

Is the infamous <em>T. rex</em> really the most popular dinosaur in America?Is the infamous <em>T. rex</em> really the most popular dinosaur in America?
Jonathan Hendricks
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February 26, 2013

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Tackling the Mystery Behind The Dodo and the Solitaire

Author Parish painstakingly works to unravel the scientific debates surrounding these iconic birds with varying success.Author Parish painstakingly works to unravel the scientific debates surrounding these iconic birds with varying success.
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February 23, 2013

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Surprising Brain Differences Between Republicans and Democrats

Two studies support the theory that political decision making has a neurological basis.
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February 21, 2013

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Evolutionary Theory Can Inform the Intelligent Design of Educational Policy and Practice

How evolutionary psychology helps us teach our children better. Evolutionary developmental psychologist maintain that evolutionary psychological theory should be regarded as an overarching framework for studying the ways in which youngsters’ developing cognitive and social skills may be adaptive or maladaptive in school environments.
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February 21, 2013

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Did “Invasions” Occur in the Fossil Record?

A panel of evolutionary biologists during Ithaca Darwin Days reflects on what we can learn about species invasions from the fossil record.Are human-facilitated invasions today the same kinds of events as Earth-facilitated changes in species distributions in the distant past? Are all species invasions “destructive”? Does invasion shut down speciation? Do we really know what the rate of invasion was in the past? In most instances, we simply don’t know.
Paula Mikkelsen
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February 20, 2013

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Debate: Public Money Spent on Social Science

Politicians to propose cutting the roughly $11 million in NSF cash that funds Political Science research.
Peter Turchin
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February 18, 2013

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Origins Of Alcohol Consumption Traced To Ape Ancestor

Eating fermented fruit off the ground may have paved way for ability to digest ethanol.
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh

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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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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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Lynette Shaw on Social Constructionism and Finding Academic Common Ground

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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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