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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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January 8, 2016

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Cancer and the transformation of life: An Interview with Athena Aktipis

An insightful interview with Athena Aktipis on cancer research from an evolutionary perspective.
Athena Aktipis
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January 5, 2016

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Social Darwinism, A Case of Designed Ventriloquism

The study of social Darwinism in the 19th century shows us when our inner desires are structured in a complete, totalizing, and perfect way that provides continuity and stability to the nation, this is always done at the expense of science.
Adriana Novoa
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January 3, 2016

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Doing Well By Doing Good: A Report on Socially Responsible Businesses

Can businesses do well by doing good? Yes, according to this report headed by EI President David Sloan Wilson. The report provides a much needed alternative to the “Greed is Good” philosophy of orthodox economic theory, which has dominated the curriculum of business schools for over 50 years.
David Sloan Wilson
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December 28, 2015

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My New Year’s Resolution: Teach Science to Promote Peace and Prosperity

how can we help ourselves to move toward a peaceful and prosperous future? One that is also more just and equitable? Teach science. That’s right. Teach science early, teach science often, and teach science well.
Gale M. Sinatra
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December 28, 2015

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Let’s find a compromise between group selection and the selfish gene

The sooner we begin to cooperate within the scientific discipline, the sooner the theory of evolution will be stronger than ever.
Doug Hoxworth
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December 20, 2015

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My New Year’s Resolution: To Play

This year, I’m seizing the opportunity to be a better parent. This year, I’m going to play more. Because I want my children to play more.
Gabrielle Principe
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December 18, 2015

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Share the Big History of Psychological Flexibility

Can our species collectively cultivate the socio-cultural changes required to make our shared visions of humanistic values become real on a global scale?
Dustin Eirdosh
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December 15, 2015

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My Resolution: Getting My Stories Straight

Every day teachers build lessons, units, semesters, and school years around a narrative structure. But did you know that these strategies also make sense from an evolutionary perspective as well?
Jason Niedermeyer
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December 14, 2015

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Adam Smith is stuck without Charles Darwin

If you could change one aspect of your life during 2016, what would make you the happiest? Imagine yourself on December 31, 2016 looking back with satisfaction on 2016. What would it be? Standard economics has an answer.
Terence Burnham
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December 10, 2015

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Steering Toward the Omega Point: A Roundtable Discussion of Altruism, Evolution, and Spirituality

Is it possible to be spiritual and scientific at the same time?
David Sloan Wilson
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December 9, 2015

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TVOL Presents: Evolution, Ritual, & the Holidays

For the holidays, we've asked our authors to tell us how evolution plays a role in the most cherished rituals of the season. If there is grandeur in this view of life, then surely it can be used to reflect upon the feasting, the gift-giving, the music-playing, the story-telling, and the hope of a more auspicious and peaceful new year!
Luba Ostashevsky
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December 9, 2015

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Star Wars, Christmas, and Constraints on Secular Influence

Why are cultural institutions like Christmas and Star Wars so popular? The answer may provide insight into human nature’s impulse towards supernatural explanation.
Michael Price
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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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