Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
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Robert Atkinson will present the findings from a new report that contrasts an evolutionary economic view with conventional economics, analyzes the three main sources of U.S. economic evolutionary change, and presents eight key principles for an evolutionary economics-inspired economic policy.…
Read more →Social scientists often look with envy to the natural sciences believing that natural scientists do not face the diversity of patterns in social phenomena. On this background, the recent finding of the wide diversity of aging across species is noteworthy.…
Read more →We are all very sad that Steve passed away (See CMU obituary). Seven Klepper supported one of the senior scholars supporting the creation of etss.net from the very beginning. On March 23, there was at event as part of the…
Read more →E.O. Wilson explains why multi-level models of evolution that allow for group selection have of become more accepted in recent times. He writes: “Multilevel selection is gaining in favor among evolutionary biologists because of a recent mathematical proof that kin…
Read more →Editor’s note: These remarks by Sidney G. Winter were delivered at a memorial service held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, February 9 in the Rogel Ballroom of the Michigan Union building at the University of Michigan. You participate in remembering Michael…
Read more →Geoffrey Hodgson writes about the importance of her work. Her Nobel Prize Lecture provides a good overview of her life work. Read Noble Lecture. NY Times Obituary.
Read more →Christopher Kelty organized a workshop on the MODE AND TEMPO IN TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE at ULCA Institute for Society and Genetics. Mike Alfaro spoke about the topic from the perspective Phylogenetics, Robert Boyd from the perspective of Cultural Evolution, and Johann…
Read more →The Economist reports ingenious new research by Roger Dunbar to test the grandmother hypothesis, namely that women after their menopause, will invest a lot more time and energy to ensuring that their daughters have offspring. He analyzed 2 billion phone…
Read more →Johann Peter Murmann has published an inductive case study entitled Coevolution of Industries and Important Features of Their Environments. Using a comparative historical method and drawing on evidence from five countries over a 60-year period, this paper spells out how…
Read more →David Sloan Wilson argues that to gain real knowledge of humanity, every field needs to drink from the “cup” of evolutionary theory. But he argues that behavioral economics as practiced today pays too little attention to evolutionary theory. Read the…
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