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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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January 31, 2013
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Young Bonobos Offer Comforting Hugs and Sex
Young bonobos console their fellow apes with hugs and sex, say scientists.
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January 31, 2013
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Babies Start ‘Mind Reading’ Earlier Than Thought
Even babies as young as a year-and-a-half can guess what other people are thinking, new research suggests.
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January 30, 2013
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Rhabdopleurids: 500 Million Years and Counting
Evolution doesn’t always end in success for every organism. In fact, for some, it seems to result in exactly what a species most fears: extinction.
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January 30, 2013
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Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Smarter: An Enormous Dino With a Tiny Brain
The biggest creatures to ever walk the Earth had brains smaller than ours.
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January 30, 2013
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Cultural Evolution Changes Bird Song
Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract “the ladies.”
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January 30, 2013
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Researchers Simulate 25,000 Generations of Evolution, Boost Artificial Intelligence
Engineers and robotics researchers have solved a biological mystery and boosted artificial intelligence.
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January 30, 2013
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How Childhood Let Modern Humans Conquer The Planet
Is curiosity what saved the humans?
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January 29, 2013
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Come Into My Parlour
A strange example of co-operative behaviour in arachnids.
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January 28, 2013
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Dung beetles guided by Milky Way
Beatles that navigate by using the stars.
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January 28, 2013
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Snagging a Date 125 Million Years Ago: the Avian Way
Sexual dimorphism, an essential piece of many species’ survival, is the difference in morphological appearance between males and females of the same species. Think Lion King: Simba’s father sported a big bushy orange mane, whereas his mother, also a lion, had no showy neck fur to speak of.
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January 28, 2013
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How To Celebrate Darwin Day
Happy Darwin Day and Evolution Weekend.
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January 26, 2013
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Patients and Evolutionary History
What evolutionary insights are there for clinical medicine?
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh
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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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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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