Posted 22 Jun 2012 / 0
Science “Legislating Sea Level Rise” Well, I guess if North Carolina says that nature only changes in a linear manner, it must be true! Thank goodness for brave legislators who are not going to let nature get non-linear on us! We evolutionary biologists have seen this play out before, but this must come as a Read More
A Minor Post, Articles, Climate Change, Political Science, Public Policy, Sustainability
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Also check out Gerry’s PetriDish site seeking funding for his project.
A Minor Post, Altruism, Cooperation, Film, Television, & Video, Public Outreach
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Biology Letters “Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence“
A Minor Post, Articles, Birds, Cooperation, Reciprocity, Social Networks
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Evolving 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, Web
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Interface “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, Web
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 1
The 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 Networks
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Nature News “The trouble with turbines: An ill wind” What is particularly scary about this story is the targeted effect that wind turbines can have on particular species who gravitate to the very wind corridors that are ideal for efficient power generation.
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Birds, Sustainable Energy
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Nature “Piled too high“
A Minor Post, Science as a career, Web
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Biology Letters “Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance” Nature Research Highlights “Castration boosts spider stamina“
A Minor Post, Articles, Sex and Reproduction
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
New Scientist “Lost toad comes back from the dead” ScienceShot “‘Vanished’ Toad Sighted“
A Minor Post, Conservation Biology, Extinction, Web
