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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 5, 2013

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Will Biomimicry Offer a Way Forward, Post-Sandy?

The emerging science of biomimicry offers a way forward.
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January 4, 2013

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Are Babies Born Good?

New research offers surprising answers to the age-old question of where morality comes from.
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January 2, 2013

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Why Society Might Actually Need Psychopaths

Does society actually need psychopaths so it can function properly?
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January 2, 2013

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Restless Genes

If an urge to explore rises in us innately, perhaps its foundation lies within our genome.
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December 27, 2012

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Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain

The role of physical endurance in shaping humankind.
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December 27, 2012

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Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution

Key mental developments within the human lineage may have been linked with a highly variable environment.
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December 27, 2012

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Monkey Brain Area Keeps Count of Kindnesses

The primates have an altruistic 'tally chart' that keeps track of social rewards and gifts.
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December 24, 2012

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Human Intelligence Secrets Revealed by Chimp Brains

Why humans are so much brainier than our nearest living relatives.
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December 21, 2012

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Defining Life

Life is more than the lucky product of a stew of elements; biology is more than complex chemistry.
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December 20, 2012

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Is Orangutan Culture Made of Ideas?

Like humans and chimpanzees, communities of orangutans have different traditions.
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December 19, 2012

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Tool-Using Orangutans Learn Like Humans

When do orangutans start to form ideas about their world—specifically, how and when to use certain tools?
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December 18, 2012

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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion

Life 7,500 years ago included an ability and willingness to help and sustain the chronically ill and handicapped.
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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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