James Andreoni: UCSDGiving to those in need is inherently a social act. First, altruistic giving requires empathy for, or perhaps simply awareness of, those who are needy. Second, giving nearly […]
Joel Sachs: UCRBeneficial bacteria improve our health and are crucial to crops plants and fodder animals. However, symbiosis is evolutionarily unstable: harmful mutants can invade symbiont populations and cause cooperation […]
Alison Gopnik: UCBOne of the most striking generalizations in evolutionary psychology is the correlation between sophisticated and flexible learning-based knowledge in adult organisms and a long protected period of immaturity […]
Roberto Schonmann: UCLA Department of Mathematics, Sao Paulo University Department of Applied MathThe evolution of cooperation and altruism are fundamental scientific challenges highlighted by their role in the major transitions […]
Keise Izuma: Cal TechHuman behaviors are influenced by the concern for social reputation (e.g., how other people think of us). It is well known in behavioral sciences that individuals tend […]
Heather Watts: LMUPatterns of survival and reproduction are known to be influenced by prevailing environmental conditions. In this talk, I will draw from my research on gregarious mammals and birds […]
Nga Nguyen: CSU FullertonMaternal care is the most significant measure of successful adaptation among female mammals. Understanding the predictors of individual differences in offspring care is a major objective of […]
Anne Kandler: Santa Fe Institute‘Language shift’ is the process whereby members of a community in which more than one language is spoken abandon their original vernacular language in favour of […]
Rebecca Sear: London School of EconomicsThe question of why people have the number of children that they do has still not been fully answered, despite decades of research on this […]
Steve Cole: UCLA School of MedicineRelationships between genes and social behavior have historically been viewed as a one-way street, with genes in control. Recent analyses have challenged this view by […]
