Reschedule: "The Evolution of Social Behaviour"

Date

Jul 23, 2015

Time

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Speaker

Complex System Reading Group

Language

en

Main Topic

Physik

Other Topics

Physik

Host

Anna Deluca

Description

The next edition of the Complex Systems Reading Group will take place on Wednesday, July 23, 5 pm in 2B1. The topic will be "The Evolution of Social Behaviour". First we take a look at the reference mathematical model "The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour" by W. D. Hamilton, published in the J. Theoret. Biol. in 1964 (more than 10000 cites according to google scholar). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022519364900384 General biological principles supported by the model are presented in the second part of the article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022519364900396 After that, we will discuss new results by C. Fowler published recently in PNAS on how this may apply to social human behaviour. From its abstract: "More than any other species, humans form social ties to individuals who are neither kin nor mates, and these ties tend to be with similar people. Here, we show that this similarity extends to genotypes." Christakis, Fowler: "Friendship and natural selection", PNAS (2015) http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10796.abstract The discussion is informal and anyone interested is welcome to join. For more informations, see: http://planet.pks.mpg.de/wiki/ReadingGroup or subscribe to the mailing list: http://lists.pks.mpg.de/mailman/listinfo/reading-group

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