The article describes how basic cognitive and emotional systems of the embodied brain are products of a long evolutionary history and how this determines the way in which the major film genres are constructed. It synthesizes research from evolutionary psychology and cognitive film studies, as...

Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics brings together contributions from eminent authors who, building on Darwin's own insights and on developments in evolutionary theory, offer challenging views on how economics can use evolutionary ideas effectively

According to Pinker, language is an innate ability to Homo Sapiens, happily acquired in the process of evolution. Language ability distinguishes humans from other animals. Pinker gives some facts as the proof, discrediting experiments on training of a chimpanzee in language. For each...

Today, Alchian's quot;Uncertainty, evolution and economic theoryquot; (1950) is hailed by evolutionary economists as a most important piece, which resumed an evolutionary brand of theorizing in economics after the eclipse of the interwar period. On the other hand, Alchian's article is also...

As human traits and preferences were shaped by natural selection, there is substantial potential for the use of evolutionary biology in economic analysis. In this paper, we review the extent to which evolutionary theory has been incorporated into economic research. We examine work in four areas:...

Attempts to discover individual differences related to entrepreneurial behavior have had limited success and even less acceptance amongst management scholars. Taking a different approach this study explores the relationship between a heritable biological characteristic of the individual,...

The theory of evolution and Neo-Darwinian biological theory extend their analysis in sociobiology from the life sciences and the animal societies to human societies. Sociobiology as a unifying theory of the social interaction within and between species has led to an integration of economic...