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Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2010 The evolution of cooperation between unrelated individuals has long been a puzzle in evolutionary biology. Formal models show that reciprocal altruism is approximately as stable as kin-based altruism when cooperators can assort.
H. Clark Barrett +2 more
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Social evolution under demographic stochasticity.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2019 How social traits such as altruism and spite evolve remains an open question in evolutionary biology. One factor thought to be potentially important is demographic stochasticity.
David V McLeod, Troy Day
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BMC Public Health, 2010 Background Results from HIV vaccine trials on potential volunteers will contribute to global efforts to develop an HIV vaccine. The purpose of this study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, was to explore the underlying reasons that induce ...
Bakari Muhammad +6 more
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.Schematic representation of M@E@CF nanosensors for detecting vesicular storage and release in cholinergic neurons and brain organoids. (A) Nano‐tip microelectrodes modification via molds fabricated through 3D printing. (B) the reaction mechanism for acetylcholine detection at the electrode interface.
Wanying Zhu +11 more
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Goal-directed, habitual and Pavlovian prosocial behavior
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 Although prosocial behaviors have been widely studied across disciplines, the mechanisms underlying them are not fully understood. Evidence from psychology, biology and economics suggests that prosocial behaviors can be driven by a variety of seemingly ...
Filip eGęsiarz, Molly J. Crockett
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Group selection as behavioral adaptation to systematic risk.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Despite many compelling applications in economics, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology, group selection is still one of the most hotly contested ideas in evolutionary biology.
Ruixun Zhang +2 more
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From biological evolution to solidarity organization: adaptive bases of human cooperation
Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación SocioecológicaThe article analyzes the adaptive foundations of human cooperation, integrating concepts from evolutionary biology and solidarity economics to understand how principles of cooperation and reciprocal altruism explain the emergence and sustainability of ...
Dustin Tahisin Gómez Rodríguez
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Complexity, Compassion and Self-Organisation: Human Evolution and the Vulnerable Ape Hypothesis
Internet Archaeology, 2015 Humans are agents capable of helping others, learning new behaviours and forgetting old ones. The evolutionary approach to archaeological systems has therefore been hampered by the 'modern synthesis' - a gene-centred model of evolution as a process that ...
Nick P. Winder, Isabelle C. Winder
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From self to nonself: The Nonself Theory
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The maintenance/strength of self is a very core concept in Western psychology and is particularly relevant to egoism, a process that draws on the hedonic principle in pursuit of desires.
Yung-Jong eShiah
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Segregate or cooperate- a study of the interaction between two species of
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008 Background A major challenge for evolutionary biology is explaining altruism, particularly when it involves death of one party and occurs across species.
Jones Emily I +6 more
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