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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Findings on Deep Human History</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 25, 2008, Science Daily published a report, “Early Populations Evolved Separately for 100,000 Years”, that added significant new findings to existing knowledge about Homo sapiens history prior to the migrations out of Africa starting around sixty thousand years ago. An international team of researchers has analyzed a sample of over 600 complete mitochondrial DNA genomes from populations across Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>Justice in the Brain: Equity and Efficiency Are Encoded Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating article with the title above appeared in a May 10, 2008 report in ScienceDaily. Researchers at the University of Illinois and CalTech led by Ming Hsu asked their subjects inside a fMRI brain scanning machine, "Which is better, giving more food to a few hungry people or letting some food go to waste so that everyone gets a share?" The answers they got clearly bear on RD Theory.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Being Human by Michael Pirson</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(Michael Pirson is a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a member of HuMaNet)

Being Human: A Darwinian Theory of Human Behavior by Paul R. Lawrence is nothing short of a revelation to researchers concerned with the current state of affairs. Not that it gives concrete hints at what to do specifically to prevent environmental destruction or social inequities, but rather that it provides something far more important: a rigorous concept of human nature, which informs us in many insightful ways how to build societal institutions to ensure human flourishing in a sustainable manner.]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin on Morality</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two interesting excerpts from The Descent of Man on morality (I posted some excerpts earlier, which can be read here):

Darwin on Morality and Group Selection: Chapter V, p. 137, Descent of Man.

    It must not be forgotten that although a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over the other men of the same tribe, yet that an increase in the number of well-endowed men and an advancement in the standard of morality will...]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Humanism in Business</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The book named above is still in press with Cambridge University Press. I received an advance draft copy from one of its five editors, Michael Pirson, who approached me after having read a draft of Being Human. [Michael not only read Being Human, he wrote a short review of it that I will post separately.] Michael’s book lives up to its sub-title, “Perspectives on the Development of Responsible Business in Society” by having 23 chapters with 28 authors. It is truly an unusual book whose goal is no less than the launching of a movement dedicated to focusing business on the improvement of the human condition, no longer on the maximization of shareholder wealth...]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Bringing Up a Moral Child</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I very recently came upon a remarkable book by Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler about morality that was well ahead of its times – Bringing Up A Moral Child. Even though it was written in 1985, it clearly sees that children start life with a moral sense. It even makes a distinction between moral reasoning and a moral sense, a feeling for right and wrong. Moral reasoning was studied by psychologists such as Piaget and Kohlberg and emerges, they argue, on a step-by-step basis between the ages of 5 and full maturity. On the other hand, according to Schulman and Mekler, a moral sense can be seen in the behavior of infants well before they can talk. Selected quotations make these points and more...]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Supercapitalism</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Reich has written an unusually insightful book about the co-evolution of US corporations and the American government in the last sixty years. Its subtitle encapsulates this story as “<em>The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life.</em>” His last chapter starts with a reprise of his argument: Supercapitalism has triumphed as power has shifted to consumers and investors. They now have more choice than ever before, and can switch ever more easily to better deals. And competition among companies to lure and keep them continues to intensify. This means better and cheaper products, and higher returns. Yet as supercapitalism has triumphed, its negative social consequences have also loomed larger. These include widening inequality as most gains from economic growth go to the very top, reduced job security, instability of or loss of community, environmental degradation, violations of human rights abroad, and a plethora of products and services pandering to our basest desires. These consequences are larger in the United States than in other advanced economies because Americas has moved deeper into supercapitalism. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Art and Intimacy: How The Arts Began</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=18</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Art and Intimacy: How The Arts Began by Ellen Dissanayake was published in 2000, and, like Constant Battles reviewed below, I can only wish I had come across it earlier. It is an amazing and wondrous book. It is repetitious but the points it makes are so important and difficult for our modern minds to grasp that I, for one, am thankful for its redundancies.

If any readers of RD theory have doubts about the fundamental nature of the human drive to bond (dB) in mutually caring relationships, they only have to read the first two chapters, Mutuality and Belonging. She makes the process of bonding come alive in her descriptions and pictures of the emotion-laden exchanges between mothers and their infants throughout the world...]]></description>
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		<title>The Loss of a Great Mind</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Darwinian Theory of Human Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a colleague called my attention to an obituary in The New York Times of January 10, 2008, about Dr. Paul MacLean, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist. This obituary provided me with my first chance to learn of Dr. MacLean’s work. I can now see that his studies of how the brain works, conducted primarily in the 1950s and 1960s, actually laid out the basic foundation for own my work over the last 20-some years. Those familiar with Being Human will see this clearly in the following quotes from his obituary...]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Constant Battles</title>
		<link>http://prlawrence.com/blog/?p=16</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lawrence</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently introduced by Richard Wrangham to a book I should have read in 2002 when it was published. It is Constant Battles by Steven LeBlanc, a physical anthropologist colleague of Wrangham’s at Harvard. LeBlanc’s book pulls together the uniformities of the behavior of ancient tribes as revealed at their living and battle sites around the world. The behavior pattern that emerged is well captured by the book’s title.]]></description>
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