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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 5, 2013
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Will Biomimicry Offer a Way Forward, Post-Sandy?
The emerging science of biomimicry offers a way forward.
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January 4, 2013
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Are Babies Born Good?
New research offers surprising answers to the age-old question of where morality comes from.
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January 2, 2013
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Why Society Might Actually Need Psychopaths
Does society actually need psychopaths so it can function properly?
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Restless Genes
If an urge to explore rises in us innately, perhaps its foundation lies within our genome.
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December 27, 2012
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Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain
The role of physical endurance in shaping humankind.
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December 27, 2012
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Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
Key mental developments within the human lineage may have been linked with a highly variable environment.
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Monkey Brain Area Keeps Count of Kindnesses
The primates have an altruistic 'tally chart' that keeps track of social rewards and gifts.
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December 24, 2012
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Human Intelligence Secrets Revealed by Chimp Brains
Why humans are so much brainier than our nearest living relatives.
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December 21, 2012
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Defining Life
Life is more than the lucky product of a stew of elements; biology is more than complex chemistry.
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December 20, 2012
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Is Orangutan Culture Made of Ideas?
Like humans and chimpanzees, communities of orangutans have different traditions.
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December 19, 2012
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Tool-Using Orangutans Learn Like Humans
When do orangutans start to form ideas about their world—specifically, how and when to use certain tools?
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December 18, 2012
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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
Life 7,500 years ago included an ability and willingness to help and sustain the chronically ill and handicapped.
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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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Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A Conversation About Primate Societies with Joan Silk
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Dugnad as Part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk
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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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