Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
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Geerat Vermeij, a biologist who has become interested in economic principles, wrote a few years back a book entitled, Nature: An Economic History. In this work he interpreted biological evolution through the lens of economic principles. (See Joel Mokyr’s excellent…
Read more →Factoid: In 2008 14% of people polled by Gallup agreed that “man evolved over millions of years”, up from 9% in 1982. Click on “Read more to see statistics on the public acceptance of Darwinism by country.
Read more →Today all eyes were on the inauguration of Barak Obama. To commemorate the moment, we want to draw the attention of our readers to an article, (Why we are, as we are) published recently in the Economist. The article spells…
Read more →Similar to our efforts with the EEpedia on economic-evolution.net E.O. Wilson has spearheaded the Encyclopedia of Life whose goal is to catalog the millions of unidentified species on the planet and document its full biodiversity. Wilson describes the project on…
Read more →A symposium on the Varieties of Knowledge in the Economy with Carliss Baldwin, Richard Langois, Johann Peter Murmann and Richard Nelson will take place at the Schumpeter Conference in Brazil. More Details.
Read more →Darwin’s Surprise. Michael Spector reports in the New Yorker some exciting scientific breakthroughs in our understanding of the role viruses have played in the evolution of the human species. Scientists are bringing extict viruses back to life by combining the…
Read more →William M. Newman and Walter Vincenti have published a very useful short essay in Technology & Culture on how fields of engineering make progress by developing effective selection criteria for evaluating prototypes. The authors describe how human computer interface designers…
Read more →Cambridge University has put 5000 letters of Charles Darwin on the web in the form of a searchable archive. If you want to find out what Darwin thought about a topic near or dear to your mind, can search the…
Read more →Richard Nelson’s forthcoming paper in Biology and Philosophy on Universal Darwinism and Evolutionary Social Science is available in preprint on Springerlink. The paper continues ideas that Nelson first articulated in the discussion on Lamarckism in Social Evolution published on etss.net…
Read more →In a Science Magazine article entitled, Group Competition, Reproductive Leveling, and the Evolution of Human Altruism Samuel Bowles tries to resurrect the formerly discredited concept of group selection. Critics of group selection argued that egoist traits would in the end…
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