Gerald Carter produces an informative video on cooperation in vampire bats
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Also check out Gerry’s PetriDish site seeking funding for his project.
A Minor Post, Altruism, Cooperation, Film, Television, & Video, Public OutreachFamiliarity breeds… mutual aid (at least in some birds)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Biology Letters “Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence“
A Minor Post, Articles, Birds, Cooperation, Reciprocity, Social NetworksInteresting reports from the Consilience Conference
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Evolving Economics “Group selection and the social sciences” Rationally Speaking “Report from the Consilience conference, part I“, “Report from the Consilience conference, part II“, and “Report from the Consilience conference, part III“
A Minor Post, Conferences, Group Selection, WebJason Collins questions the utility-to-fitness conversion
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Evolving Economics “Gandolfi, Gandolfi and Barash’s Economics as an Evolutionary Science” Great commentary on the fitness-maximizing behavior (or lack thereof) by the ultra-rich. Clearly humans are maximizing something other than their genetic fitness when they seek utility.
A Minor Post, Cultural Evolution, Economics, Memetic FitnessDo you need cooperation in your model to explain why there are more right-handed people?
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Interface “A model balancing cooperation and competition can explain our right-handed world and the dominance of left-handed athletes“
A Minor Post, Competition, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, WebOnce your subject becomes a continuing education class…
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0…you know that it has gotten into the mind of the public. University of Oxford course “Evolution of Cooperation and Cheating: From Microbes to Humans“
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolution EducationScientific American “Why We Help”
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 1The July issue of Scientific American features a cover story written by Martin A. Nowak called “Why We Help“. This very short article contains a brief review of Nowak’s “five rules” for cooperation, a little bit of connection to experimental work in real organisms, and some hazy conjecture concerning what makes humans cooperate. It seems as Read More
A Major Post, Anthropogenic Change, Articles, Behavior, Climate Change, Cooperation, Evolution, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Group Selection, Human Evolution, Human Nature, Kin Selection, Punishment, Reciprocity, Social NetworksJuly issue of Scientific American will feature a cover story on the evolution of cooperation
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Scientific American July issue
A Minor Post, CooperationWho is the bigger bioterrorist, man or nature?
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Nature “Engineering H5N1 avian influenza viruses to study human adaptation” I think that the most interesting idea expressed by this article is: In considering the threat of bioterrorism or accidental release of genetically engineered viruses, it is worth remembering that nature is the ultimate bioterrorist. There is so much in this single statement, so many Read More
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