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Tag Archives: Edward O. Wilson
Just in case you missed it the first ten times: E.O. Wilson likes group selection, Jerry Coyne does not
Why Evolution is True “E. O. Wilson mistakenly touts group selection (again) as a key factor in human evolution“
Posted in A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolution, Group Selection, Kin Selection, Reciprocity
Tagged Edward O. Wilson, Jerry Coyne
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Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield’s “SuperCooperators”
Martin Nowak has accomplished a lot for a mid-career scientist. His theoretical work exploring how cooperation evolves has illuminated the importance of a great number of evolutionary mechanisms. He has also been unafraid to tackle real-life problems of cooperation, including … Continue reading
Posted in Altruism, Books, Cooperation, Cultural Evolution, Ethics, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Group Selection, History, Human Evolution, Human Nature, Kin Selection, Language Evolution, Multilevel Selection, Mutualism, Punishment, Reciprocity, Religion, Superorganisms, Sustainability
Tagged David Sloan Wilson, Edward O. Wilson, Garrett Hardin, JBS Haldane, John Maynard Smith, Martin A. Nowak, Roger Highfield, Supercooperators, William D. Hamilton
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E.O. Wilson’s “The Four Great Books of Darwin”
In preparation for my attendance at the In the Light of Evolution V: Cooperation conference, I have been checking out past National Academy of Sciences colloquia in this series. In 2009, there was an In the Light of Evolution of … Continue reading
Robert Trivers and colleagues on Nowak, Tarnita, and Wilson’s “The evolution of eusociality”
One of the most difficult things about being the only full-time biologist on the Pratt Institute campus is that I do not have the opportunity to discuss serious science in my field with colleagues or guest speakers. To help alleviate … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Altruism, Articles, Behavioral Ecology, Cooperation, Data Limitation, Evolution, Game Theory, Group Selection, Human Evolution, Multilevel Selection, Sociology, Superorganisms, Talks & Seminars
Tagged Corina E. Tarnita, David Sloan Wilson, Edward O. Wilson, George C. Williams, H. Allen Orr, Jerry Coyne, Martin A. Nowak, Nature magazine, Richard Dawkins, Robert Trivers, Rutgers University
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