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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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June 26, 2017
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Evolution Is As Real As Gravity
Evolution by natural selection is much more than just a hypothesis, and is as much a valid and well-accepted scientific theory as the theory of gravitation.
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June 19, 2017
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Deconstructing Niche Construction: A Conversation between Gordon Burghardt and Kevin Laland
The concept of niche construction stresses a dialectical relationship between organisms and their environments, rather than one being passively shaped by the other. It has deep roots in evolutionary thought but only now is resulting in a systematic research program. Join Gordon Burghardt and Kevin Laland as they take a deep dive into the subject.
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June 9, 2017
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Marketing Evolution Webinar: It's the List, Stupid!
Robert Kadar gives an overview of his tried-and-tested methods for building audiences. He will also explain what "It's the List, Stupid!" means and why it's key to building successful organizations.
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May 31, 2017
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TVOL1000 Profile: Kathryn Coe
While humans are indeed the creators of literature and art, we are also life forms that have co-evolved with and are often dependent upon other forms of life.
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May 29, 2017
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Constructing Our Niches: How Evolutionary Theory Is Useful for the Building Industry
Evolutionary theory is very applicable to contemporary humans and our social/cultural worlds, including the world of the building/construction industry.
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May 24, 2017
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The Evolution of Language and its Speakers
What separates us from the apes is a sequence of social and technological revolutions, one major change after the other in the life experiences of human communities. The emergence of language was one such revolution, not the last and definitely not the first.
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May 22, 2017
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Challenging Chomsky and his Challengers: Brian Boyd Interviews Daniel Dor
If you want to think about language and evolution, about language and experience, about language and almost anything, or about almost anything in language, then start, or start all over again, with Daniel Dor’s The Instruction of Imagination.
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May 16, 2017
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Holding Hands is More Important Than You Think
It turns out that holding hands with a friend or loved one isn’t just comforting, it actually makes the pain from the shock less painful
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May 8, 2017
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
In 1959, Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut began what would come to be one of the longest-running experiments in biology. For the last 58 years they have been domesticating silver foxes and studying evolution in real time. But in 1952, seven years before this experiment began, Belyaev initiated a pilot study to determine whether or not his audacious ideas about domestication merited a full-fledged experiment. Here we tell that story.
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May 3, 2017
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Learning from Religion about Social Cells
What can religion teach us about the nature of human social groups?
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May 1, 2017
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Why Do Men Play and Watch Sports?
Men have evolved mechanisms that motivate them to engage in physical competitions with other men and to watch other men competing.
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April 27, 2017
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This View of History Webinar: A Conversation With Peter Turchin
Peter Turchin discusses his new book "Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth". Ultrasociety chronicles 10,000 years of human history from an evolutionary perspective, shows how warfare paradoxically caused us to become the greatest cooperators on earth, and begins to point the way toward a future without war.
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Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten
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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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