“EvoLudo” site provides tutorials on evolutionary games related to cooperation
Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0Evoludo
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Game Theory, Teaching Tools“Evolution and Games” site provides tutorials on cooperation theory
Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0Evolution and Games: “How to quit the Price equation” “Evolution of Parochial Altruism by Multilevel Selection” “Sociality: It takes grouping and cooperation” “In and out of equilibrium: Evolution in repeated games” “Repeated games and population structure“
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Game Theory, Teaching ToolsE-print Network provides searchable access to the primary scientific literature
Posted 16 Jun 2012 / 0E-Print Network This new database, created by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, aggregates the many pages on which scientists make their publications available as e-prints. This aggregator is searchable, making it possible to access the work of thousands of scientists for free. Add this site to the list of many other means by Read More
A Minor Post, PublicationCan “muppet theory” help explain behavioral heterogeneity in human social groups?
Posted 16 Jun 2012 / 0National Public Radio “Explaining Muppet Theory: Are You An Ernie Or A Bert?” I have to admit that I am an “order Muppet”, but I also believe that human societies function in part because of their heterogeneity: we need the optimal mix of different behavioral types in order to realize the full potential of our Read More
A Minor Post, Radio & Podcasts, Social DiversityVampire bats: the ideal organism for studying cooperation?
Posted 15 Jun 2012 / 0Social Bat “Why vampire bats are a good experimental model of cooperation: natural, cognitive, and controllable” I particularly like Gerry’s two-dimensional space representing different systems on the basis of their complexity and natural-ness!
A Minor Post, Cooperation, WebNY Times provides perspective on E.O. Wilson’s “The Social Conquest of Earth”
Posted 13 Jun 2012 / 0The New York Times “Lessons from Ants to Grasp Humanity” Funny how the media likes to trot out Jerry Coyne whenever someone questions Darwinian orthodoxy. I cannot entirely blame Coyne for how he is quoted, but his quotes never seem to offer much a substantial critique. The bit on religion is interesting here: Wilson seems Read More
A Minor Post, Articles, Books, Cooperation, Group Selection, SuperorganismsRichard Dawkins on E.O. Wilson’s “The Social Conquest of Earth”
Posted 12 Jun 2012 / 0Prospect Magazine “The descent of Edward Wilson” First comment on this: what’s up with the ad hominem attacks on Wilson implying (not-so-subtly) that he is somehow slipping (look here for another example) in his old age? Given the massive departure that Dawkins has made from science in his writings on religion, he is the last one Read More
A Minor Post, Articles, Books, Cooperation, Group Selection, Human Evolution, Human Uniqueness, SuperorganismsDavid Sloan Wilson on Richard Dawkins on E.O. Wilson
Posted 12 Jun 2012 / 0The Huffington Post David Sloan Wilson blog “Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, and the Consensus of the Many” This is a very clear articulation of the history of multilevel selection. If only all biologists (in particular those who do not work in areas investigating altruistic behavior) could be compelled to read this; a lot of Read More
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Human Evolution, Human Uniqueness, Superorganisms, WebDoes climate change have the potential to reduce the stabilizing effects of biodiversity?
Posted 11 Jun 2012 / 0Ecology Letters “Experimental climate change weakens the insurance effect of biodiversity“
A Minor Post, Articles, Climate Change, Community EcologyBruce B. Henderson on the unappreciated importance of “consumatory scholarship”
Posted 11 Jun 2012 / 0The Chronicle of Higher Education “Just Because We’re Not Publishing Doesn’t Mean We’re Not Working” All I can say about this article is “word”.
A Minor Post, Higher Education, Teaching