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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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October 2, 2012
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The Evolutionary Advantage of Depression
Alleles (forms of genes) that increase one's risk for depression also enhance immune responses to infections.
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October 2, 2012
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Lamarck and the Missing Lnc
Epigenetic changes accrued over an organism’s lifetime may leave a permanent heritable mark on the genome.
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October 2, 2012
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World’s Tiniest Footprints Discovered
A recent trace fossil discovery at Canada's Joggins Fossil Cliffs has captured the interest of paleontologists worldwide.
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October 2, 2012
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Darwinian Giant Robert Trivers Riffs on Toddler Tantrums, Homophobic Denial and Other Lies
Moreover, as lying has evolved, so has the ability to detect lies.
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October 2, 2012
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Dawn of the Deed, Part 1: Down and Dirty in the Devonian
In Part I of a series, author John Long describes his passion for placoderms – and his sudden discovery of live birth in these ancient fish.The story of unraveling placoderm reproduction begins with a 380-million-year-old fossil from the Gogo site, Western Australia, that yielded the oldest evidence of live birth in vertebrates.
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October 1, 2012
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When Opportunity Calls, The Message Isn’t Always Clear
In an act that proclaimed the continuing importance of the aging spacecraft—looking tired and dusty but proud after weathering no less than five Martian winters—the rover <em>Opportunity</em> beamed home a set of images that has scientists scratching their heads.Scientists examining a Mars image from the 9-year-old rover <em>Opportunity </em>have multiple working hypotheses of what the spherules might be, but no one is yet sold on an explanation.
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September 29, 2012
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The Most Hilarious and Frightening Attack On Science
The Daily Show reveals the stupidity behind attacks on science.
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September 28, 2012
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Research Suggests that Evolution Sometimes Meant Becoming Simpler, Not More Complex
Animals have become more complex over time could be a thing of the past.
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September 28, 2012
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Researchers Link Early Evolution Of Animals To Climate Change And Oxygen Levels
first evidence of a direct link between patterns in early animal diversity and changes in Earth system processes.
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September 27, 2012
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UCSB Evolutionary Psychologists Study the Purpose of Punishment and Reputation
For two decades, evolutionary scientists have been locked in a debate over the evolved functions of three distinctive human behaviors.
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September 27, 2012
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What Richard Dawkins Reads: Jerry Coyne, Helena Cronin and More
Dawkins reviews his favorite books.
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September 27, 2012
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Ecomimicry: Principle One - Evolution
Without integrating evolution, we can’t design a society interconnected with ecology and we won’t restore the natural world.
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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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