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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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July 28, 2012

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The Origins of Racism

modern evolutionary biology is making enormous contributions to our understanding of how our ideas of race, racism, gender, and sexism arise.
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July 27, 2012

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The Origin of Life Challenge

The origin of life challenge. Scientists compete over how life began.
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July 27, 2012

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Correlation, Causation, and the Bravery of Young Observational Scientists

Fracking, low birth weights and the scientific process.
Rafe Sagarin
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July 27, 2012

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Victory Stance May Be a Universal Gesture of Triumph

The study suggests that displays of triumph may have an important role in evolution, perhaps by helping individuals signal status and dominance in early human societies.
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July 26, 2012

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The Joker’s Wild: On the Ecology of Gun Violence in America

The United States is the deadliest wealthy country in the world. Can science help us explain, or even solve, our national crisis?
Eric Michael Johnson
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July 26, 2012

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‘Darwinian Agriculture’ Explains How Evolution Can Improve Agriculture

What we need is a plant able to produce more with a given amount of water.
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July 25, 2012

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Alice’s Evolutionary Restaurant

A Bit about the Founding Editor of <em>The Evolutionary Review.</em>
Jiro Tanaka
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July 24, 2012

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Climate Change and Inter-Group Cooperation

Given the tension between our evolved tribalism and the global collective action problem of managing our planet, how can we hope to avoid the climate tipping point?
Evolution Institute
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July 23, 2012

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Punishing Cheaters: Are We the Dark Knight—Or Just Dark?

If you could confront the pickpocket who ripped you off in the subway, would you simply demand your wallet back, or would you seek vengeance?
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July 23, 2012

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Compare The Meerkat and The Lawyer

Looking at animal behaviour for insights into corporate life is just another example of silo busting, a practice that is becoming all the rage.
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July 20, 2012

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10 Mind-Boggling Psychological Phenomena; Part 1

If we examine puzzling visual illusions we can get an idea of how the brain normally does its work.
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July 20, 2012

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Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps—A First

Heartwarming story of gorillas dismantling poachers traps.
Rafe Sagarin
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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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