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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 5, 2012
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Prehistoric Flatulence Warmed the Earth
Dinosaurs contributed approximately 520 million tons of methane gas to prehistoric environments every year.
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July 3, 2012
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Use Woofound, Learn Evolution.
It is important to note that evolution is not just about biological change.
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July 2, 2012
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Lipstick, the Recession and Evolutionary Psychology
Our findings confirmed that the lipstick effect is not only real, but deeply rooted in women’s mating psychology.
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July 2, 2012
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The Nature Of Regulation II: Regulate Or Die
In biology, regulation isn’t about less or more. It’s about just the right kind of regulation required to survive and reproduce.
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July 1, 2012
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Morality: What is it Good For?
How evolution sculpts moral systems.
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June 30, 2012
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Multilevel Selection is a Productive Theoretical Framework for Investigating Human History
Evolutionists respond to Steven Pinker's challenge to group selection. ETVOL welcomes all points of view.
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June 30, 2012
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Debate on Altruism, Human Social Evolution, and Natural Selection
In the spirit of Evolution: This View of Life's mantra "science as a process of constructive disagreement" we will highlight the debate and welcome all the arguments.
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June 28, 2012
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The Nature of Regulation I: Breaking Out of Our Narrative Prisons
Both liberal and conservative narratives about regulation are like prisons that confine reasonable people to predetermined choices. A new narrative based on the biological concept of regulation can set us free. Regulation is one of the most charged words in politics. If you’re a conservative, then you’re likely to think that regulation is a bad thing that erodes personal responsibility and prevents the free enterprise system from working its magic.
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June 28, 2012
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On the Evolution of Human Morality (a comment on Steven Pinker)
Why do fundamentally selfish beings, which is what humans are according to the selfish gene theory, accept cultural norms that contradict their natural strivings?
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June 26, 2012
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Line blurs between man, animal: Monkeys do math, baboons seem to read, orangutans plan ahead
The more we study animals, the less special we seem.
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June 25, 2012
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We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much?
Modern medicine tells us that too much meat is bad for us, so what's a consumer to do?
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June 25, 2012
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Evolution and Our Inner Conflict
Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?
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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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