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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 13, 2013

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Is War Creative?

Warfare has transformed us from living in villages to living in huge states, building cities and civilizations, and ultimately making our lives more peaceful.
Peter Turchin
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January 13, 2013

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Darwin Was Wrong About Dating

What do women want? Pretty much what men want.
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January 13, 2013

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Morality and Violence in Animals and Humans

The application of human standards of morality to animal behavior.
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January 11, 2013

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A Science Teacher Draws the Line at Creation

A science teacher asks if scientists and biblical literalists can get along.
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January 10, 2013

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Can Our Pruney Fingers Help Us Build Better Rain Treads?

This universality already suggests that there could be a good evolutionary reason for pruney fingers.
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January 9, 2013

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Why Do Animals Like To Play?

Recreation may look like it serves no obvious purpose, but when dogs and other animals are having fun they are learning some valuable lessons.
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January 9, 2013

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Networking Ability a Family Trait in Monkeys

Social behaviors have been acted on by natural selection.
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January 8, 2013

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Jays Appear to Mourn Dead Winged Comrades

When a Western scrub jay dies, researchers report, other jays may hold a kind of funeral.
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January 7, 2013

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Bonobos Share With Strangers Before Acquaintances

Building a social network and making new friends as valuable as food.
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January 7, 2013

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An Ancient Brain Gives Clues About Insect Ancestry

Fuxianhuia protensa is an ancient arthropod from the Yunnan Province of China that has scientists rethinking the evolutionary history of insects.
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January 6, 2013

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Are We Born With a Sense of Fairness?

Does fairness come standard with every newborn, or is it something that we (hopefully) develop as we mature?
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January 5, 2013

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Scientists Breed Big-Brained Guppies to Demonstrate Evolution’s Trade-offs

Scientists have long suspected that big brains come with an evolutionary 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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