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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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July 20, 2012
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Learning From The Tubeworm About Turning A Crisis Into An Opportunity
adaptability, symbiosis, and the water crisis (or is it the “coming water opportunity?”).
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July 18, 2012
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Nature Isolation and Stable Vices
Is our increasing physical isolation from nature, and from one another, causing us to exhibit “stable vices”?
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July 18, 2012
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Boiling Blood
The physical experience of anger may be similar for all humans, but different cultures have different ways of expressing it.
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July 16, 2012
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For Unendowed Fish, A Fake Dinner Leads to Sex
The promise of a nice dinner might not always win over a woman, but for some male fish, a tasty-looking lure seems to get the girl pretty reliably.
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July 16, 2012
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Evolutionary Studies of Atheism on the Rise
Scientists and philosophers subject atheism to an evolutionary analysis. In recent years, we have witnessed one of the most exciting scientific developments of the modern era: the evolutionary study of the belief in supernatural agents and transcendent experiences. In fact, it was Charles Darwin himself, a learned theologian, who founded the evolutionary study of religion and spirituality.
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July 14, 2012
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Hook-ups, Horror, and Human Evolution
It’s a good thing when pop culture and good science get together
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July 13, 2012
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Feeling Snappy? Measuring Personality in Hermit Crabs
If measuring and describing personality is complicated for humans, it becomes vastly more so for animals.
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July 13, 2012
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Autumn Babies More Likely to Hit 100
Good news for autumn babies: those born between September and November are more likely to live to 100 than those born in other months of the year.
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July 13, 2012
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For Unendowed Fish, A Fake Dinner Leads to Sex
So how do you get a female fish to sidle on over so you can slip her your genetic goods?
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July 13, 2012
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The Evolution of Human Aggression
A special issue of the journal Human Nature reports on the causes and consequences of human aggression from an evolutionary perspective.
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July 13, 2012
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Do Wild Bats Hold the Key to Understanding Human Tribal Behavior?
Disease-causing pathogens–viruses, bacteria and protists–have geographies, both in terms of where they can be found and how common they are within those regions.
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July 13, 2012
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Sexual Selection Not So Simple
Revisiting a classic study could overturn the idea that male competition rules reproductive choice.
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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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