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How cheating ants give themselves away
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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In ant society, workers normally give up reproducing themselves to care for their queen's offspring, who are their brothers and sisters. When workers try to cheat and have their own kids in the queen's presence, their peers ...
Cheating has long-term consequences in the evolution of cooperation
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Jul 04, 2007 |
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Freeloaders can live on the fruits of the cooperation of others, but their selfishness can have long-term consequences, reports an evolutionary biologist from The University of Texas at Austin in a new study.
In amoeba world, cheating doesn't pay
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem doomed to fail, at least in the microscopic world of amoebas where natural selection favors the noble.
Some cheaters can keep it in their genes
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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A new study examining social behaviour suggests certain individuals are genetically programmed to cheat and often will do... providing they can get away with it.
Game theory study: Cooperative behavior meshes with evolutionary theory
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the perplexing questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist.
Cheating is easy -- for the social amoeba
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Cheating is easy and seemingly without cost for the social amoeba known as Dictyostelium discoideum, said a team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston who conducted the first genome-scale ...
Bacteria join ranks of lazy cheaters
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Sep 24, 2007 |
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Baseball had its steroids and Black Sox. Politics lived through Watergate. Wall Street has been riddled with insider trading scandals. And before we cast the first stone, who among us has never tried to get through an intersection ...
A single gene leads yeast cells to cooperate against threats
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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An ingenious social behavior that mobilizes yeast cells to cooperate in protecting each other from stress, antibiotics, and other dangers is driven by the activity of a single gene, scientists report this week in the journal ...
Hydrocarbon afterglow reveals reproductive cheaters
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ‘honest indicator’ has been discovered by a scientific team at Arizona State University that reveals reproductive cheating. But before you run out to buy an infidelity identification kit, ...
Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
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Jul 05, 2007 |
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No one likes a cheater, even a single-celled one. New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep cheaters from undermining the health of their colonies. The research ...
More regulations make websites less trustworthy, study shows
Aug 02, 2006 |
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Placing strict controls and regulations on website operators does not make the Internet more secure and private for users, according to a new study. In fact, stringent policies seem to make the matter worse, says Dr. Karim ...
In spite of ourselves
Jan 18, 2006 |
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Humans have a strong desire to help each other, but is spite also part of the human condition? In a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Academy, Keith Jensen and colleagues from the Max Planck Ins ...
Web sites offer test answers 'cheap'
Dec 26, 2007 |
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A Web site in Ohio is offering answers to hundreds of questions on qualifying examinations for professionals ranging from computer technicians to pharmacists.
Honeybees not fooled by cheating flowers
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flowers that want to cheat pollinators by not paying them for their services shouldn’t try to lure them in using floral scents, scientists at Newcastle University have shown.
BitTyrant makes a turbulent entry into digital filesharing
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 05, 2007 |
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As you read this sentence, an estimated 5 million people are using BitTorrent to download their favorite movies or TV shows. The free software has achieved almost iconic status since its 2001 release, its creator profiled ...
