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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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August 9, 2012

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Found: Fossil Flatfish

A new discovery by Matt Friedman at Oxford University is providing paleontologists with clues to the flatfish’s seemingly unsolved history.
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August 8, 2012

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Politics and Science: It’s Complicated

Researchers increasingly seek to examine the evolution of complex political, economic, and social systems from many perspectives, yet politicians and others may be tempted to reduce dynamic systems to one or two variables.
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August 8, 2012

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Evolutionary Battle of Sexes Drives Human Height

Among study's findings: Women on the shorter side have more children
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August 8, 2012

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Interdisciplinary Science in the Anthropocene

my advice to those idealistic students after my own tortured career in interdisciplinary environmental science.
Rafe Sagarin
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August 8, 2012

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Physics and Math Shed New Light on Biological Evolution

The new theory provides a physical foundation for general evolution dynamics.
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August 8, 2012

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There’s Something Special About Islands

A new study provides some of the first empirical evidence that island biodiversity really is different from that of the mainland.
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August 8, 2012

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God and the Ivory Tower

What we don't understand about religion just might kill us.
Scott Atran
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August 7, 2012

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Cliodynamics: A Science For Predicting The Future

Evidence for principles that explain past patterns and that just might also predict future trends.
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August 7, 2012

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Evolutionary Molecule Identified By Researchers

A molecule that could play a key role in how cells develop into the building blocks of life.
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August 7, 2012

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Google Earth For Cells Lets Biologists Zoom In

Google Earth technology for looking at cells.
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August 7, 2012

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Social Network Size Linked to Brain Size

How and why the volume of the orbital prefrontal cortex is related to the size of social networks.
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August 7, 2012

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Mom’s Genes Make Males Die Sooner

Men who make it to adulthood without succumbing to the male habit of dying in accidents shouldn't congratulate themselves too soon.
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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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