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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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June 8, 2020
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Moral Rigidity Evolved to Strengthen Bonds Within Groups
Moral rigidity and its intimate link to in-group boundaries may have evolved so as to make us behave, and be seen, as trustworthy yet cautious team members in social environments mired by intergroup competition.
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June 4, 2020
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Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance
Geoffrey Hodgson, a scholar of economics and the social sciences, explains how both forms of national governance fail in their pure forms.
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May 25, 2020
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Cooperation Through Cultural Group Selection
Cultural forces are far greater than genetic predisposition or geographic proximity in promoting cooperation with nonkin.
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May 23, 2020
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Evolving the Future of Corporations: A Conversation with Toby Shannan
A major corporation is teaming up with evolutionary scientists to help achieve its laudable goals and provide a model for other corporations.
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May 14, 2020
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Extremist Groups Require the Greatest Trust Among Members
Good signals are those which clearly differentiate membership in one group versus another; even stronger are those which are also costly to express, and therefore hard to fake.
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May 5, 2020
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Tightening and Loosening Up for the Coronavirus Pandemic with Michele Gelfand
TVOL's first podcast with Michele Gelfand explored an axis of cultural variation from "tight" (strong norms, strongly enforced) to "loose" (tolerant of individual differences).
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May 3, 2020
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The Physical Activity Mismatch: Can Evolutionary Perspectives Inform Exercise Recommendations?
It’s highly likely that some degree of mismatch exists between our modern environment and the physical activity levels we have evolved to perform.
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May 1, 2020
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Darwinizing the Federalist Papers: Epilogue
This epilogue provides key references for you to deepen your knowledge, including the academic literature, a rapidly expanding genre of books accessible to the general reader, and authoritative online content.
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April 29, 2020
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Did Paleolithic People Suffer From Kidney Disease?
Paleo-type diets by limiting salt and sugar should help limit damage to the blood vessels in the kidneys and other organ systems.
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April 27, 2020
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education
Helping students understand the evolution of our human sense of purpose should be the central purpose of evolution education.
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April 26, 2020
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh
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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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