I think we've already started seeing the very early threads of the unraveling, with the rise of #YouTube and #streaming - people tuning out of #bigbudget, #heavilymarketed, prefabricated entertainment in favor of "#realpeople telling real stories.'

Though that's still life-at-a-remove, if less of a remove.

#Socialevolution happens quickly, but the ripples take more time. #Socialmedia "happened" in the last 20 years, mostly, but its deeper effects take a while.../3

My paper with Wes Maciejewski on the Evolution of Extraordinary Self-Sacrifice is now featured in a special collection of articles on moral judgment and decision-making, so I thought it was a good time to share it here.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-04192-w

#SocialEvolution #cooperation #altruism #spite #KinSelection #InclusiveFitness #AnimalBehavior

Hi friends! My Emmanuel College research team and I are excited to share a new preprint, “Natural Selection for Collective Action”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14700. I hope this work can bridge some longstanding divides, while opening new questions on collective behavior.

“Collective action” can be anything that organisms do collectively---bacteria forming biofilms, ants building “living bridges”, birds cooperatively raising young, lions hunting in groups. We attempt to answer why, how, and when such collective action evolves.

So far, there is no coherent theory for how evolution leads collectives to behave. Instead, evolutionary biology has sought to explain collective action as emerging from the evolved, self-organizing behavior of individual organisms. This individual-centric perspective can be valuable. But it sidesteps the question of why collective action can seem so well-designed and intentional. Is there no sense in which evolution acts directly on the actions of collectives?

#Preprint #Evolution #EvolutionaryGameTheory #EcoEvo #SocialEvolution #CollectiveAction

#marsupial #socialevolution

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/marsupials-complex-social-lives-evolution

Thank you so much Abel Bernadou for an inspiring FINE seminar about simple #social #ant s and implications for #socialevolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eODOuCfR9bI

#Introduction

I’m a Post-doc at the University of Oxford, working on the evolution of bacterial genomes and pangenomes. I’m interested in bacterial cooperation and ecology, and how these might interact with horizontal gene transfer.

I’m on the train to Manchester for the #MicroEvo22 meeting, where I’ll be presenting a poster (no. 17). Looking forward to seeing lots of you there!

#Bacteria #SocialEvolution #Plasmids #HorizontalGeneTransfer #Pangenomes #ComparativeGenomics

Here we summarise or main results on comparative studies on #socialevolution in #mammals indicating their #socialorganisation is #variable and their #ancestor was not #solitary living.
https://www.skrs.online/comparative-studies.html

A brief #introduction

My work is a mess of #psychology, #EvolutionaryBiology, #economics, #sociology, and #mathematics. A lot of people think it's weird.

I use theories of #SocialEvolution to understand the mechanisms of #cooperation and #conflict. Empirically, I study humans. Theoretically, I study anything that can be said to "behave."

I have long been interested in the effects of #kinship, but have more recently begun to poke at #inequality and #competition.

#introduction

I'm Jorge, something of a theoretical evolutionary ecologist and theoretical social scientist, currently working as assistant professor at #IAST, an interdisciplinary institute in 🇨🇵 (now on leave in 🇳🇱).

I am interested in #socialevolution and its mathematical #modelling: #gametheory of cooperation and collective action problems, replicator dynamics, island models, Mathematica's FullSimplify, ✍🏽, #julialang (recent switch), that kind of stuff.

Glad to be here. 🦣 to the people!

Just updated the project homepage by adding a "News Slide Show" https://www.skrs.online/
and the important new findings about #marsupial #socialevolution https://www.skrs.online/comparative-studies.html