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Stanley N. Salthe. Ph.D. in Zoology, Columbia University, 1963. My interests and work have ranged widely, in order, as follows: ichthyology, herpetology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, systems science, semiotics, natural philosophy, with publications in all but the first. I taught various biology courses at the City

University of

A PROXY FOR NON-MARKET FORCES (WHY REAL WAGES STOPPED Previous blogs in this series asked why real wages stopped growing in the 1970s and whether long-term trend in labor demand and supply can help us answer this question. In this blog I turn to ‘extra-economic’ (non-market) factors, which are even harder to THE END OF PROSPERITY: WHY DID REAL WAGES STOP GROWING IN Something happened in the 1970s. During most of the 20th century—until the 1970s—wages of American workers grew much faster than inflation. In the half-century after 1927 real wages of unskilled labor increased by a factor of 3.5, while wages of SELFISH GENES MADE ME DO IT! (PART II) To recap, in the first installment I pointed out that the three post-war decades were remarkably clean, in terms of corporate malfeasance. Then, during the 1980s, there was a series of scandals primarily involving insider trading. The trend really intensified during the 2000s, when we THIS VIEW OF MORALITY: CAN AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Morality is Objective by Eric Dietrich “ morality (or most of it, anyway) is just as objectively true as science and mathematics. The key ingredient is the notion of harm.” THIS VIEW OF LIFE SPECIAL EDITION TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism This View of Life Special Edition This View of life is an online magazine that reports on evolution the way that Darwin imagined it—as a theory that applies to all aspects of humanity in addition to the SUSTAINABLE MODERNITY: THE NORDIC MODEL AND BEYOND vii Figures 1.1 Within-domain and across-domain sustainability 6 8.1 Disabled as a share of the population by age groups 149 8.2 Top income shares 1875–2011 150 WHAT DO NORWEGIANS THINK? VALUES AND ATTITUDES IN A What do Norwegians think? Values and attitudes in a wealthy social democracy Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester Thinking about Norway’s success, economic resources, and political structures and HOME - EVOLUTION INSTITUTEABOUTOUR WORKPODCASTNEWSLETTERDONATEPUBLICATIONS The Evolution Institute is a non-profit research and policy organization that seeks to understand and solve humanity’s most critical problems. We bring together scientists and scholars from many disciplines to conduct research, start pilot projects and develop policy recommendations. Our work is based on a scientific evolutionary

perspective

SESHAT - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Seshat: Global History Databank is a large, international, multidisciplinary team of evolutionary scientists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, and other social scientists. We are an international scientific research project housed in and supported by the Evolution Institute. Our mission is to gather

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STANLEY N. SALTHE

Stanley N. Salthe. Ph.D. in Zoology, Columbia University, 1963. My interests and work have ranged widely, in order, as follows: ichthyology, herpetology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, systems science, semiotics, natural philosophy, with publications in all but the first. I taught various biology courses at the City

University of

A PROXY FOR NON-MARKET FORCES (WHY REAL WAGES STOPPED Previous blogs in this series asked why real wages stopped growing in the 1970s and whether long-term trend in labor demand and supply can help us answer this question. In this blog I turn to ‘extra-economic’ (non-market) factors, which are even harder to THE END OF PROSPERITY: WHY DID REAL WAGES STOP GROWING IN Something happened in the 1970s. During most of the 20th century—until the 1970s—wages of American workers grew much faster than inflation. In the half-century after 1927 real wages of unskilled labor increased by a factor of 3.5, while wages of SELFISH GENES MADE ME DO IT! (PART II) To recap, in the first installment I pointed out that the three post-war decades were remarkably clean, in terms of corporate malfeasance. Then, during the 1980s, there was a series of scandals primarily involving insider trading. The trend really intensified during the 2000s, when we THIS VIEW OF MORALITY: CAN AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Morality is Objective by Eric Dietrich “ morality (or most of it, anyway) is just as objectively true as science and mathematics. The key ingredient is the notion of harm.” THIS VIEW OF LIFE SPECIAL EDITION TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism This View of Life Special Edition This View of life is an online magazine that reports on evolution the way that Darwin imagined it—as a theory that applies to all aspects of humanity in addition to the SUSTAINABLE MODERNITY: THE NORDIC MODEL AND BEYOND vii Figures 1.1 Within-domain and across-domain sustainability 6 8.1 Disabled as a share of the population by age groups 149 8.2 Top income shares 1875–2011 150 WHAT DO NORWEGIANS THINK? VALUES AND ATTITUDES IN A What do Norwegians think? Values and attitudes in a wealthy social democracy Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester Thinking about Norway’s success, economic resources, and political structures and PROJECTS - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Education Initiative. The Education Initiative is a long-term commitment to identifying and evolving more viable systems for healthy human learning and education. Our initiative includes workshops, webinars, and publications by some of the leading researchers on learning and child development. View Project. SHOULD EVOLUTION BE TAUGHT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Counterintuitive concepts have been challenging how we understand the world for Geocentric (top) and heliocentric (bottom) models of the solar system ages. As early as the sixth century B.C., the idea that the sun, moon, stars, and visible planets all EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH Evolutionary Mismatch. Natural selection adapts organisms to their past environments and has no ability to foresee the future. When the environment changes, adaptations to past environments can misfire in the current environment, producing a mismatch that can only be solved by subsequent evolution or by modifying the current environment. THE END OF PROSPERITY: WHY DID REAL WAGES STOP GROWING IN Something happened in the 1970s. During most of the 20th century—until the 1970s—wages of American workers grew much faster than inflation. In the half-century after 1927 real wages of unskilled labor increased by a factor of 3.5, while wages of

JOSHUA TYBUR

Joshua Tybur is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the emotion disgust, and how it can help us better understand pathogen avoidance, political attitudes, and moral

punishment.

THE TIDE OF OPINION ON GROUP SELECTION HAS TURNED A survey of evolutionary anthropologists on the subject of group selection 1 provides evidence that the tide of opinion has turned on that once heretical subject. William Yaworsky, Mark Horowitz, and Kenneth Kickham surveyed 175 evolutionary anthropologists (including biological/physical anthropologists and behavioral ecologists) from EDUCATION THROUGH AN EVOLUTIONARY LENS When humans (i.e., members of the Homo genus) first emerged two or so million years ago, we lived in small, nomadic bands and made our living hunting and gathering. THIS VIEW OF MORALITY: CAN AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Morality is Objective by Eric Dietrich “ morality (or most of it, anyway) is just as objectively true as science and mathematics. The key ingredient is the notion of harm.” EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT: A BASIC 4 Finally, there is the question of what to do about cases of mismatch after they have been documented. An evolutionary mismatch is a particular type of dysfunction that results from evolution in changing

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The Sudd wetland is potentially the greatest economic asset in South Sudan and if properly managed could provide income, jobs, and irreplaceable ecosystem services indefinitely. This report introduces the concept of an evolutionary path toward sustainability and the advantages of long-range planning and comprehensive public policies. EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH Evolutionary Mismatch. Natural selection adapts organisms to their past environments and has no ability to foresee the future. When the environment changes, adaptations to past environments can misfire in the current environment, producing a mismatch that can only be solved by subsequent evolution or by modifying the current environment.

STANLEY N. SALTHE

Stanley N. Salthe. Ph.D. in Zoology, Columbia University, 1963. My interests and work have ranged widely, in order, as follows: ichthyology, herpetology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, systems science, semiotics, natural philosophy, with publications in all but the first. I taught various biology courses at the City

University of

THE GAP BETWEEN THE HUMANITIES AND THE SCIENCES Joseph Carroll. Joseph Carroll is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His books include The Cultural Theory of Mathew Arnold, Wallace Stevens’ Supreme Fiction, Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen.He produced an edition of On the Origin of Species. WHY IS THE HUMAN VAGINA SO BIG? Because big vaginas outcompete small ones at catching sperm. Because of male pleasure from coitus with a big vagina. Because of heat dissipation or thermoregulation. Because of a tradeoff with brain size. And of course, we’d need to demonstrate that the human vagina is in fact larger, relative to body size, than the vaginas of other

primates.

THE TIDE OF OPINION ON GROUP SELECTION HAS TURNED A survey of evolutionary anthropologists on the subject of group selection 1 provides evidence that the tide of opinion has turned on that once heretical subject. William Yaworsky, Mark Horowitz, and Kenneth Kickham surveyed 175 evolutionary anthropologists (including biological/physical anthropologists and behavioral ecologists) from WHAT DO NORWEGIANS THINK? VALUES AND ATTITUDES IN A What do Norwegians think? Values and attitudes in a wealthy social democracy Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester Thinking about Norway’s success, economic resources, and political structures and HOME - EVOLUTION INSTITUTEABOUTOUR WORKPODCASTNEWSLETTERDONATEPUBLICATIONS The Evolution Institute is a non-profit research and policy organization that seeks to understand and solve humanity’s most critical problems. We bring together scientists and scholars from many disciplines to conduct research, start pilot projects and develop policy recommendations. Our work is based on a scientific evolutionary

perspective

PROJECTS - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Education Initiative. The Education Initiative is a long-term commitment to identifying and evolving more viable systems for healthy human learning and education. Our initiative includes workshops, webinars, and publications by some of the leading researchers on learning and child development. View Project. SHOULD EVOLUTION BE TAUGHT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Counterintuitive concepts have been challenging how we understand the world for Geocentric (top) and heliocentric (bottom) models of the solar system ages. As early as the sixth century B.C., the idea that the sun, moon, stars, and visible planets all

SPECIAL REPORTS

The Sudd wetland is potentially the greatest economic asset in South Sudan and if properly managed could provide income, jobs, and irreplaceable ecosystem services indefinitely. This report introduces the concept of an evolutionary path toward sustainability and the advantages of long-range planning and comprehensive public policies. EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH Evolutionary Mismatch. Natural selection adapts organisms to their past environments and has no ability to foresee the future. When the environment changes, adaptations to past environments can misfire in the current environment, producing a mismatch that can only be solved by subsequent evolution or by modifying the current environment.

STANLEY N. SALTHE

Stanley N. Salthe. Ph.D. in Zoology, Columbia University, 1963. My interests and work have ranged widely, in order, as follows: ichthyology, herpetology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, systems science, semiotics, natural philosophy, with publications in all but the first. I taught various biology courses at the City

University of

THE GAP BETWEEN THE HUMANITIES AND THE SCIENCES Joseph Carroll. Joseph Carroll is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His books include The Cultural Theory of Mathew Arnold, Wallace Stevens’ Supreme Fiction, Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen.He produced an edition of On the Origin of Species. WHY IS THE HUMAN VAGINA SO BIG? Because big vaginas outcompete small ones at catching sperm. Because of male pleasure from coitus with a big vagina. Because of heat dissipation or thermoregulation. Because of a tradeoff with brain size. And of course, we’d need to demonstrate that the human vagina is in fact larger, relative to body size, than the vaginas of other

primates.

THE TIDE OF OPINION ON GROUP SELECTION HAS TURNED A survey of evolutionary anthropologists on the subject of group selection 1 provides evidence that the tide of opinion has turned on that once heretical subject. William Yaworsky, Mark Horowitz, and Kenneth Kickham surveyed 175 evolutionary anthropologists (including biological/physical anthropologists and behavioral ecologists) from WHAT DO NORWEGIANS THINK? VALUES AND ATTITUDES IN A What do Norwegians think? Values and attitudes in a wealthy social democracy Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester Thinking about Norway’s success, economic resources, and political structures and PROJECTS - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Education Initiative. The Education Initiative is a long-term commitment to identifying and evolving more viable systems for healthy human learning and education. Our initiative includes workshops, webinars, and publications by some of the leading researchers on learning and child development. View Project. WHAT WE DO - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE With many of our proof of concept programs focused in marginalized neighborhoods in west Florida, our aim is to develop innovative yet practical approaches that are replicable, scalable and adaptable to specific needs and opportunities of communities around the world to positively affect societal problems, and serve the needs and

aspirations of

SESHAT - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Seshat: Global History Databank is a large, international, multidisciplinary team of evolutionary scientists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, and other social scientists. We are an international scientific research project housed in and supported by the Evolution Institute. Our mission is to gather

information from

JOSHUA TYBUR

Joshua Tybur is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the emotion disgust, and how it can help us better understand pathogen avoidance, political attitudes, and moral

punishment.

A PROXY FOR NON-MARKET FORCES (WHY REAL WAGES STOPPED Previous blogs in this series asked why real wages stopped growing in the 1970s and whether long-term trend in labor demand and supply can help us answer this question. In this blog I turn to ‘extra-economic’ (non-market) factors, which are even harder to THIS VIEW OF MORALITY: CAN AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Morality is Objective by Eric Dietrich “ morality (or most of it, anyway) is just as objectively true as science and mathematics. The key ingredient is the notion of harm.” EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT: A BASIC 4 Finally, there is the question of what to do about cases of mismatch after they have been documented. An evolutionary mismatch is a particular type of dysfunction that results from evolution in changing

environments.

THIS VIEW OF LIFE SPECIAL EDITION TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism This View of Life Special Edition This View of life is an online magazine that reports on evolution the way that Darwin imagined it—as a theory that applies to all aspects of humanity in addition to the SUSTAINABLE MODERNITY: THE NORDIC MODEL AND BEYOND vii Figures 1.1 Within-domain and across-domain sustainability 6 8.1 Disabled as a share of the population by age groups 149 8.2 Top income shares 1875–2011 150 THE EVOLUTIONARY BASIS OF RISKY ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR Steinberg, 2008). Thus, the legal system, policymakers, and sci-entists have focused an enormous amount of attention on risky adolescent behavior as a problem in need of a solution. HOME - EVOLUTION INSTITUTEABOUTOUR WORKPODCASTNEWSLETTERDONATEPUBLICATIONS The Evolution Institute is a non-profit research and policy organization that seeks to understand and solve humanity’s most critical problems. We bring together scientists and scholars from many disciplines to conduct research, start pilot projects and develop policy recommendations. Our work is based on a scientific evolutionary

perspective

SHOULD EVOLUTION BE TAUGHT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Counterintuitive concepts have been challenging how we understand the world for Geocentric (top) and heliocentric (bottom) models of the solar system ages. As early as the sixth century B.C., the idea that the sun, moon, stars, and visible planets all SESHAT - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Seshat: Global History Databank is a large, international, multidisciplinary team of evolutionary scientists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, and other social scientists. We are an international scientific research project housed in and supported by the Evolution Institute. Our mission is to gather

information from

EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH Evolutionary Mismatch. Natural selection adapts organisms to their past environments and has no ability to foresee the future. When the environment changes, adaptations to past environments can misfire in the current environment, producing a mismatch that can only be solved by subsequent evolution or by modifying the current environment.

STANLEY N. SALTHE

Stanley N. Salthe. Ph.D. in Zoology, Columbia University, 1963. My interests and work have ranged widely, in order, as follows: ichthyology, herpetology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, systems science, semiotics, natural philosophy, with publications in all but the first. I taught various biology courses at the City

University of

THE GAP BETWEEN THE HUMANITIES AND THE SCIENCES Joseph Carroll. Joseph Carroll is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His books include The Cultural Theory of Mathew Arnold, Wallace Stevens’ Supreme Fiction, Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen.He produced an edition of On the Origin of Species.

JOSHUA TYBUR

Joshua Tybur is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the emotion disgust, and how it can help us better understand pathogen avoidance, political attitudes, and moral

punishment.

WHY IS THE HUMAN VAGINA SO BIG? Because big vaginas outcompete small ones at catching sperm. Because of male pleasure from coitus with a big vagina. Because of heat dissipation or thermoregulation. Because of a tradeoff with brain size. And of course, we’d need to demonstrate that the human vagina is in fact larger, relative to body size, than the vaginas of other

primates.

A PROXY FOR NON-MARKET FORCES (WHY REAL WAGES STOPPED Previous blogs in this series asked why real wages stopped growing in the 1970s and whether long-term trend in labor demand and supply can help us answer this question. In this blog I turn to ‘extra-economic’ (non-market) factors, which are even harder to WHAT DO NORWEGIANS THINK? VALUES AND ATTITUDES IN ANORWEGIAN VALUES AND BELIEFSEVERYDAY LIFE IN NORWAYNORWAY CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONSNORWEGIAN CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS What do Norwegians think? Values and attitudes in a wealthy social democracy Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester Thinking about Norway’s success, economic resources, and political structures and HOME - EVOLUTION INSTITUTEABOUTOUR WORKPODCASTNEWSLETTERDONATEPUBLICATIONS The Evolution Institute is a non-profit research and policy organization that seeks to understand and solve humanity’s most critical problems. We bring together scientists and scholars from many disciplines to conduct research, start pilot projects and develop policy recommendations. Our work is based on a scientific evolutionary

perspective

SHOULD EVOLUTION BE TAUGHT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Counterintuitive concepts have been challenging how we understand the world for Geocentric (top) and heliocentric (bottom) models of the solar system ages. As early as the sixth century B.C., the idea that the sun, moon, stars, and visible planets all SESHAT - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Seshat: Global History Databank is a large, international, multidisciplinary team of evolutionary scientists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, and other social scientists. We are an international scientific research project housed in and supported by the Evolution Institute. Our mission is to gather

information from

EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH Evolutionary Mismatch. Natural selection adapts organisms to their past environments and has no ability to foresee the future. When the environment changes, adaptations to past environments can misfire in the current environment, producing a mismatch that can only be solved by subsequent evolution or by modifying the current environment.

STANLEY N. SALTHE

Stanley N. Salthe. Ph.D. in Zoology, Columbia University, 1963. My interests and work have ranged widely, in order, as follows: ichthyology, herpetology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, systems science, semiotics, natural philosophy, with publications in all but the first. I taught various biology courses at the City

University of

THE GAP BETWEEN THE HUMANITIES AND THE SCIENCES Joseph Carroll. Joseph Carroll is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His books include The Cultural Theory of Mathew Arnold, Wallace Stevens’ Supreme Fiction, Evolution and Literary Theory, Literary Darwinism, Reading Human Nature, and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen.He produced an edition of On the Origin of Species.

JOSHUA TYBUR

Joshua Tybur is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the emotion disgust, and how it can help us better understand pathogen avoidance, political attitudes, and moral

punishment.

WHY IS THE HUMAN VAGINA SO BIG? Because big vaginas outcompete small ones at catching sperm. Because of male pleasure from coitus with a big vagina. Because of heat dissipation or thermoregulation. Because of a tradeoff with brain size. And of course, we’d need to demonstrate that the human vagina is in fact larger, relative to body size, than the vaginas of other

primates.

A PROXY FOR NON-MARKET FORCES (WHY REAL WAGES STOPPED Previous blogs in this series asked why real wages stopped growing in the 1970s and whether long-term trend in labor demand and supply can help us answer this question. In this blog I turn to ‘extra-economic’ (non-market) factors, which are even harder to WHAT DO NORWEGIANS THINK? VALUES AND ATTITUDES IN ANORWEGIAN VALUES AND BELIEFSEVERYDAY LIFE IN NORWAYNORWAY CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONSNORWEGIAN CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS What do Norwegians think? Values and attitudes in a wealthy social democracy Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester Thinking about Norway’s success, economic resources, and political structures and PROJECTS - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE Education Initiative. The Education Initiative is a long-term commitment to identifying and evolving more viable systems for healthy human learning and education. Our initiative includes workshops, webinars, and publications by some of the leading researchers on learning and child development. View Project. WHAT WE DO - EVOLUTION INSTITUTE With many of our proof of concept programs focused in marginalized neighborhoods in west Florida, our aim is to develop innovative yet practical approaches that are replicable, scalable and adaptable to specific needs and opportunities of communities around the world to positively affect societal problems, and serve the needs and

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primates.

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