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Showing posts with label evolutionary theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolutionary theory. Show all posts
Monday, January 21, 2019

Bill Mitchell — Why progressive values align more closely with our basic needs

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Thomas Fazi and I have been discussing the shape of our next book and I think it will be an interesting and worthwhile followup to Reclaimi...
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Sunday, December 9, 2018

Joe Brewer — Society As Platform — A New Frontier in Complexity Science

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Must-read. Joe Brewer elaborates on the foundation for contemporary problem solving at the macro level. It's short and to the point. ...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

David Sloan Wilson — Proof That Policies Informed by Evolution Can Succeed Where Other Perspectives Have Failed

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Evolution, the theory that has already proven itself for understanding the rest of life, is equally relevant for understanding the human co...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Eric Schliesser — Dennett as Synthetic Philosopher

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Weekend reading for those of wide-ranging interests. It's on Daniel Dennett's contribution to the study of consciousness and his s...
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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Evolving the New Economy: — David Sloan Wilson interviews Tim O'Reilly

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Evolutionary theory meets artificial intelligence and the management of algorithms. Evonomics Evolving the New Economy: Tim O’Reilly and ...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Branko Milanovic — The importance of Taleb’s system: from the Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game

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Interesting exploration of Nassim Taleb's systematic thought and its implicitly evolutionary basis. Global Inequality The impo...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Pan Wang — Chinese dating shows are changing traditional views on love and marriage

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Why is this important to know about? Liberalization is changing the conditions for sexual selection, a primary evolutionary input.  Thi...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Dom Galeon — This study suggests we are still evolving as a species

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A study that analyzed large-scale genetic data from more than 200,000 people showed that the human genome is still evolving. Researchers fo...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

Lord Keynes — The 10,000 Year Explosion, Chapter 2: A Summary

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Chapter 2 of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution(2009) is called...
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Saturday, February 4, 2017

Philip Ball — How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder

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Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whe...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Lawrence Davidson — Are Humans Natural-Born Killers?

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A new study, published in the journal Nature and entitled “The Phylogenetic Roots of Human Lethal Violence,” argues two points: (1) along ...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

David Sloan Wilson’s Statement: The Neo-Darwinian Revolution Is Far from Complete

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Weekend reading. DSW focuses on Nikolaas Tinbergen's four questions . Having clearly stated my definition, here is the position that...
Friday, August 19, 2016

William Hawes — Growing Up Insane

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Why do democracies select insane people — psychopaths and sociopaths — to lead them. This is yet another paradox of liberalism. In biolo...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Jag Bhalla and David Sloan Wilson — Updating Hayek: Can 'The Market' Prioritize Well?

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This is diablog 9 between David Sloan Wilson (DSW) and me (JB) Think Big — errors we live by Updating Hayek: Can 'The Market' Pri...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Cameron K. Murray — How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

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Cameron Murray reviews Peter Turchin's Ultrasociety. How we got here. Evonomics How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Coope...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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According to parasite stress theory, we should see higher levels of collectivism in situations of higher pathogen stress, but not in respon...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

East Asian Forum — China Regards Harmony as a Strategic Concept

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One of the discipline’s greatest theorists, Kenneth Waltz, argues that the international system has a consistent set of features that trans...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Chris Mooney — 6 Surprising Scientific Findings About Good and Evil

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Harvard's Joshua Greene on the evolution of morality—and why humanity may, objectively, be getting better in the long run. AlterNet 6...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

Peter Turchin — Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays

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Complex human societies, including our own, are fragile. They are held together by an invisible web of mutual trust and social cooperation....
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Izabella Kaminska — Striving for social de-evolution

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I don’t think there’s anything stopping us from achieving the top future. The only thing that gets in the way is if people fail to unde...
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