Allen MacNeill predicts resolution of Ev-Coop debates
Posted 16 Mar 2013 / 0The Cornell Daily Sun “Darwin Days Lecture: “Can Cooperation Evolve by Natural Selection?”“
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Cultural Evolution, Group Selection, Kin SelectionMartin Nowak to lecture on the compatibility of god and the evolutionary process
Posted 16 Mar 2013 / 0College of the Holy Cross “Harvard Scientist to Lecture at Holy Cross on God and Evolution” It is amazing to hear someone like Nowak say “God uses evolution to unfold the living world around us”. This is radical stuff for a theorist to say, as we generally try to understand properties and dynamics of systems Read More
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolution, ReligionUnderstanding kin selection and reciprocity when strategies are culturally propagated
Posted 16 Mar 2013 / 0arXiv “Self-Organization Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation with Cultural Propagation“
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Kin Selection, ReciprocityDumb radio ads provide smart insight into the diverse nature of human societies
Posted 15 Feb 2013 / 0Do everyday people have any sense of their place in the world? Human beings live in incredibly complex societies undergirded by convoluted economies and overwhelmingly diverse cultures. Do we have a sense of how these societies came to be, or how they function and persist? For evolutionists, these are pretty vexing scientific questions: most researchers Read More
A Major Post, Behavior, Cooperation, Economic sustainability, Ethics, Gene-Culture Coevolution, Group Selection, Human Evolution, Political Science, Public Policy, Radio & Podcasts, Social Diversity“Earth Hour” seeks to re-focus our attention on all the earth provides
Posted 11 Feb 2013 / 0World Wildlife Fund Earth Hour Will an hour of darkness give us the time to contemplate both the importance of ecosystem services and how our voracious energy consumption threatens those services? It is certainly worth a try.
A Minor Post, Activism, Anthropogenic Change, Climate Change, Cooperation, Environmental Justice, Public Policy, Sustainable EnergyForward on Climate Rally seeks to shift the national dialogue on anthropogenic climate change
Posted 10 Feb 2013 / 0The Sierra Club / 350.org / Hip Hop Caucus — Forward on Climate Rally
A Minor Post, Anthropogenic Change, Climate Change, Cooperation, Environmental Justice, Ethics, Political ScienceDog license dataset opens up huge potential for understanding the dog-human mutualism
Posted 26 Jan 2013 / 0WNYC “NYC’s Top Dogs: Mapping Names & Breeds in the City” WNYC “Dogs of NYC” Data sets like these, even flawed by their incompleteness (only 20% of dogs in New York City are registered) are fascinating. The human relationship with dogs has changed radically as we have urbanized as a species: I would suggest that the dominance Read More
A Minor Post, Canids, Coevolution, Gene-Culture Coevolution, Geography, Human Evolution, Human Uniqueness, Mutualism, Public Policy, Radio & Podcasts, WebBrief NYT article on empathy in children
Posted 25 Jan 2013 / 0The New York Times “Understanding How Children Develop Empathy“
A Minor Post, Altruism, Articles, EmpathyIs selective rejection of science really a problem?
Posted 18 Jan 2013 / 1In a recent short opinion piece (Scientific American “Creation, Evolution and Indisputable Facts“), Jacob Tanenbaum argues that selectively rejecting evolutionary biology is dangerous to the scientific culture of America. He rightly points out that our populace does not reject science as a whole, but instead picks and chooses what science to doubt and what science Read More
A Major Post, Adaptation, Altruism, Articles, Belief, Cooperation, Evolution, Gene-Culture Coevolution, Human Evolution, Human Uniqueness, Religion, System StabilityRoberts Publishing releases an iPad version of their majors Evolution textbook
Posted 12 Jan 2013 / 0iTunes “Evolution: Making Sense of Life” I don’t own an iPad so I won’t be playing with this anytime soon, but I am very curious about the impact of this first-of-its-kind majors Evolution textbook for tablet. I am not sure if this is the new big thing or the last dying try of the old-model Read More
A Minor Post, Educational Software and Apps, Evolution, Evolution Education, Teaching Tools