News tagged with evolutionary dynamics
When Being a Cuckold Makes Evolutionary Sense
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolutionary biology theory predicts that males usually won't invest a lot of time raising offspring when there is a good chance they are not the fathers. Yale University researchers have ...
Carrots are better than sticks for building human cooperation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School ...
Outcome matters more than intention when punishing or rewarding accidents
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Outcomes matter more than intention when choosing to punish or reward individuals who've caused accidents, according to new research from Harvard University.
Cyber exploring the 'ecosystems' of influenzas
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Predicting the infection patterns of influenzas requires tracking both the ecology and the evolution of the fast-morphing viruses that cause them, said a Duke University researcher who enlists computers to model such changes.
Analysis finds strong match between molecular, fossil data in evolutionary studies
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 28, 2009 |
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During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance, ...
'Undesirable' evolution can be reversed in fish, scientists show
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Intensive harvesting of the largest fish over many decades, while leaving the small fish behind, may have unintentionally genetically reprogrammed many species to grow smaller, said lead author Dr. David O. ...
