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Quantum Chimpanzees: Do Watched Primates Change Their Behavior?

In particle physics, the mere act of looking at an electron changes its direction of movement. Could observing primates also change the outcome of what is observed?

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By Marcel J. Harmon In Business

Constructing Our Niches: The Ultimate/Proximate Relationship Relative to Planning, Design, Construction, and Operations

How do we create an overall building process rooted in an evolutionary framework?

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By Marcel J. Harmon In Biology

Constructing Our Niches: The Ultimate/Proximate Relationship Relative to Codes and Standards

In the fifth article of this series, Constructing Our Niches: Exploring the Relevant Ultimate Design Features, I broadened the discussion of ultimate design features for the building/construction industry, focusing on...

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Morality

Learning from Gossip about Free Speech

Gossip is highly moral, sophisticated, and sensitive to context. Can we use this to improve…

David Sloan Wilson
April 10, 2018

Biology Morality

The Mathematics of Kindness

Altruistic behavior seems abundant in nature, but how did it evolve? George Price had the…

Wim Hordijk
April 6, 2018

Business

The Joy of X

As a marketer, I obviously value any opportunity better to understand ourselves and our true,…

Rory Sutherland
April 4, 2018

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Business

The Business World Needs Multilevel Selection (MLS) Theory

MLS theory makes it crystal clear that unless competition is appropriately structured and refereed, it…

David Sloan Wilson
April 4, 2018

Business

The Gendered Organisation

The classic pyramidal hierarchy, so beloved by men, is increasingly unfit for purpose.

Nigel Nicholson
April 4, 2018

Business

Design organizations compatible with human nature

From the advent of the industrial revolution to the present, the business class paid scant…

Stephen Colarelli
April 4, 2018

Business

The Evolved Decision Maker

What behavioural economists neglected to answer is the ultimate question: why do people possess these…

Max Beilby
April 4, 2018

Business

Building trust in diverse groups

Mental models that support our choice of leaders suffer from biases inherited from our evolutionary…

Paulo Finuras
April 4, 2018

Business

The face of a leader: Honest signal or a mismatch?

When encountering a person we do not look at their feet, torso, or shoulders; we…

John Antonakis
April 4, 2018

Business

Moral Sentiments

To maximize our welfare we should design organizations for Homo sapiens rather than for Homo…

J.W. Stoelhorst
April 3, 2018

Business

Evolutionary Psychology and Organization Science

I study how organizations work, and how to make them work better. One would think…

Phanish Puranam
April 3, 2018

Business

Tinbergen’s four questions and variance explained: Why business (and all behavioral science) needs evolutionary theory

Any behavioral science—including business—that does not acknowledge, understand, and utilize Tinbergen’s four evolutionary questions to…

Sandeep Mishra
April 3, 2018

Biology Economy

Systems Engineering as Cultural Group Selection: A Conversation with Guru Madhavan

Systems engineering can be seen as an exceptionally pure form of artificial cultural group selection,…

Guru Madhavan, David Sloan Wilson
March 29, 2018

Arts Biology Culture

Punk Evolutionist: An Interview with Greg Graffin

Did you know that Greg Graffin, founder of the legendary band Bad Religion, is also…

Greg Graffin, David Sloan Wilson, Kevin Kniffin
March 20, 2018

Business

Curiosity as a Commandment for Business School Curricula

Understanding the evolutionary basis for curiosity as a human universal importantly invites everyone to appreciate…

Kevin Kniffin
March 15, 2018

Interview Philosophy

Evolution and the Enigma of Reason: Brian Boyd Interviews Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber on their New Book

In The Enigma of Reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber crack the code on one…

Brian Boyd
March 12, 2018

Biology Business

Constructing Our Niches: Exploring the Relevant Ultimate Design Features

When evolutionary theory is used in the building and construction industry we can better design…

Marcel J. Harmon
March 5, 2018

Culture

Join the TVOL1000!

The TVOL1000 is a tribe of people who understand the meaning of “this view of…

Evolution Institute
February 21, 2018

Culture Gender

Charles Darwin’s Happy Birthday

As we mark Charles Darwin’s birthday on February 12th, our culture is riding a wave…

Melvin Konner
February 12, 2018

Biology

Evolution as a Problem Solver in Computer Science

In computer science, there are many problems that are known to be "hard." What this…

Wim Hordijk
January 29, 2018

Biology Business Culture

Constructing Our Niches: The Misalignment of Ultimate Design Features With Their Proximate Manifestations

A misalignment of the physical and social/cultural environment’s proximate manifestations with the relevant ultimate design…

Marcel J. Harmon
January 23, 2018

Biology Culture

Constructing Our Niches: Introducing the Importance of Cooperation and Ultimate Vs. Proximate Design Features

Collective and sustainable behavior is partially dependent on maintaining higher levels of cooperation among those…

Marcel J. Harmon
January 19, 2018

Culture Morality Religion

Religious Epigenetics

How can conservative and progressive Christian denominations churches be so different from each other, despite…

David Sloan Wilson
January 12, 2018

Business Culture Economy Mind

Are Modern Businesses a Mismatch?

The current appeal of boss-less organizations may be more than just a fad; instead it…

Mark van Vugt
January 4, 2018

Webinar

Does Natural Selection Explain Why You Exist?

Over the long history of life on earth, the most consequential events have been those…

Mel Andrews
January 3, 2018

Webinar

What Does it Mean to be Multicellular?

By studying the transition to multicellularity in a controlled laboratory setting, scientists can gain detailed…

Maximus Thaler
January 2, 2018

Webinar

One Man’s Selfishness is Another Man’s Altruism

(apologies for the gendered title – culture evolves faster than idioms do) Selfishness versus Altruism…

Maximus Thaler
December 29, 2017

Webinar

How to Evolve a Religion

Religious naturalists understand that science and religion aren’t opposed ideologies, rather, both are valuable ways…

Maximus Thaler
December 25, 2017

Webinar

The Chain That Links Science to Story

Evolutionary theory offers a remarkably rich and beautiful story about how we came to be,…

Maximus Thaler
December 22, 2017

Interview Mind

Thinking Clearly About Collective Intelligence: A Conversation with Geoff Mulgan about his new book Big Mind

A conversation with Geoff Mulgan, founder of the think tank Demos and current chief executive…

Geoff Mulgan, David Sloan Wilson
December 22, 2017

Culture Religion

Writing Evolution into Humanist Manifesto IV

It is the essence of Humanism to take responsibility for improving the human condition, using…

David Sloan Wilson
December 21, 2017

Anthropology Culture

Solving Friction with Fiction: Cooperation, Co-ordination, and the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Storytelling

Storytelling may help to solve problems of co-ordination in hunter-gatherer societies in order to promote…

Daniel Smith
December 6, 2017

Culture Morality

Truth-Telling and the Power of Norms

It is easy to imagine modern society falling apart due to the collapse of truth-telling…

David Sloan Wilson
December 4, 2017

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