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Amy Jones 9/10/12 Amy Jones 9/10/12

the evolutionary purpose of tears in curious behavior: yawning, laughing, hiccuping, and beyond (the atlantic)
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Amy Jones 7/27/12 Amy Jones 7/27/12

art, darwin and evolutionary psychology in the new republic “Art, then, can be defined as the calisthenics of pattern-finding…(Boyd) is proposing a direct link between art and fitness: the more art we experience, the more likely we are…
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Amy Jones 7/6/12 Amy Jones 7/6/12

 distortion and feelings in the atlantic “…an evolutionary biologist who specializes in animal communication, says that jarring rock music shares aural characteristics with the arousing vocalizations of troubled animals and may capture …
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Amy Jones 1/29/12 Amy Jones 1/29/12

thoughts on an evolutionary purpose of sadness and depression in the nyt
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Amy Jones 10/3/11 Amy Jones 10/3/11

harvard psychologist steven pinker’s hopeful new book the better angels of our nature: why violence has declined debuts tomorrow from slate:“… a monumental achievement. His book should make it much harder for pessimists to cling t…
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

are primates altruistic?: hints on why we help
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Amy Jones 7/3/11 Amy Jones 7/3/11

“If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as …
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Amy Jones 4/10/11 Amy Jones 4/10/11

the flip side of the coin and evolution “ I felt no sense that I carried a handicap that would render my efforts futile should I again face deep trouble. In fact, I felt a heightened sense of agency. Anything and everything I did to improve my…
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Amy Jones 4/3/11 Amy Jones 4/3/11

Paul Bloom talks to Seed about why we get pleasure from food, sex, art and religion “…my argument is that pleasure is deep. For instance, sexual desire isn’t just triggered by looking at certain symmetries in the face, or waist-to…
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Amy Jones 4/3/11 Amy Jones 4/3/11

Consumerism, sex, and evolution: Seed Magazine reviews Spent by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Millerp.s. interesting aside about the hall of mirrors of evolutionary narcissism  
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Amy Jones 3/20/11 Amy Jones 3/20/11

The world is almost mind-numbingly dynamic. Out of the Big Bang came the stars. Out of stardust came the Earth. Out of Earth came single-celled creatures. Out of the evolutionary life and death of these creatures came human beings with consciousness…
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Amy Jones 3/20/11 Amy Jones 3/20/11

Just as the Urnanâbhi, a species of spider, creates a thread out of his own body and takes it back, just as the plants grow by their own nature, and all these things are yet separate and apparently different (the heart is, as it were, different from…
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Amy Jones 3/20/11 Amy Jones 3/20/11

Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outs…
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Amy Jones 3/20/11 Amy Jones 3/20/11

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if…
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Amy Jones 3/20/11 Amy Jones 3/20/11

As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the Un…
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