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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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October 22, 2012

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Evolution of New Genes Captured

How living things evolve new functions from a limited set of genes.
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October 22, 2012

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How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.

"We damn near went extinct."
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October 20, 2012

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Robert Bellah on Religion, Atheism, and the World and All its Contents

What does theology--as distinct from the scholarly study of religion--contribute to our understanding of religion from an evolutionary perspective?
David Sloan Wilson
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October 16, 2012

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Brawn Vs Brain In Evolutionary Selection

Two traits of brain size and body size are driven by different evolutionary mechanisms.
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October 16, 2012

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Modern Humans Found to be Fittest Ever at Survival, By Far

Humans have done more to extend our life expectancy in the last century than during the previous 6.6 million years, since the evolutionary divergence from chimpanzees.
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October 16, 2012

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From Darwin to Meme: How a Catchphrase Catches On

Blast Radius’ Mark Bardsley adds some marketing context to the theory of evolution and the idea of memes.
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October 15, 2012

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Can Humans Stop Aging?

Can scientists prevent aging in late life?
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October 15, 2012

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A Bad Misunderstanding of Evolution and Homosexuality

the ducks will get you in the end.
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October 14, 2012

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Has our War on Microbes Left our Immune Systems Prone to Dysfunction?

An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you're missing.
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October 11, 2012

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The Neanderthal in My Family Tree

New genetic evidence shows our ancestors interbred with now-extinct species.
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October 11, 2012

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War and Violence on the Decline in Modern Times

Political Scientist Joshua Goldstein and Psychologist Steven Pinker discuss arguments on the decline of violence.
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October 10, 2012

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Are Humans Monogamous or Polygamous?

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and biologists agree: It’s complicated.
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[BONUS] Robert Kurzban On the Modular Mind

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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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