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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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March 19, 2020

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How and Why the Food Industry Makes Americans Sick

The problem is that capitalism, as it is currently practiced in the United States, has no system for assessing the risks of companies’ products and marketing practices.
Anthony Biglan
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March 17, 2020

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The Extremist in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Era of Anarchist Terrorism

Terrorism is used by those who do not have the means to pursue more conventional or moderate strategies to achieve their goals.
Randall Law
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March 12, 2020

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The Right to Sell Arms

Unlike the industry leaders Adam Smith wrote about, when leaders of the gun industry pursue their “own interest” it does not promote the “interests of society.” It is harming society.
Anthony Biglan
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March 7, 2020

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Evolving a Major Transition in the Internet Age

The theory of major transitions provides an all-encompassing framework to explore both the opportunities and challenges facing humanity in the Internet Age.
Alan Honick
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March 6, 2020

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PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A Conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass

Niruban Balachandran
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March 6, 2020

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The Taxonomy of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations

PsychTable.org is an open-science taxonomy devoted to uncovering the richness and complexity of our evolved human behavior.
Niruban Balachandran
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March 5, 2020

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How Cigarette Marketing Killed 20 Million People

The tobacco industry provides a lesson about the harm that can be done in the name of profit. No other industry has contributed as much to promote illness and death.
Anthony Biglan
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March 3, 2020

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Why Religious Extremism is Maladaptive

Religious systems that lose their adaptability become dangerous to the societies in which they exist, and to themselves, because they absolutize the relative.
Richard Sosis
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February 27, 2020

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The Cultural Evolution of Social Pathologies: Introduction to a Series of Essays by Anthony Biglan

The fact that evolutionary selection pressures so often result in social pathologies might be hard to accept, but once faced squarely it can lead to an optimistic point of view.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 26, 2020

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Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A Conversation About Primate Societies with Joan Silk

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February 13, 2020

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Evolving a Sustainable Future in the United Kingdom

ProSocial is inherently about equity and co-production starting at the scale of small groups and then applying the same principles at multiple levels.
David Sloan Wilson
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February 12, 2020

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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of Terrorist Recruiters

The issue of recruitment, as opposed to just radicalization, is an undeniably important and neglected area of study.
John Horgan
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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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