Tag Archives: Digital Evolution

BEACON Researchers at Work: The Structure of Coevolution

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Luis Zaman.  In my first BEACON blog post, I wrote about how we study the diversity producing effects of host-parasite coevolution in Avida. I used a traffic jam … Continue reading →

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How and why do animals evolve grouping behavior?

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This blog post is reposted from MSU graduate student Randal Olson’s blog. In the concluding remarks of their book Living in Groups, Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton highlighted “understanding how and why animals evolve grouping behavior” as one of the … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary excursion into the depth of the human psyche?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze. Let me tell you about my excursion to the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) in Berlin. I met the director Ralph Hertwig a while ago interviewing for a job, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Testing Phylogenetic Inference with Experimental Evolution

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Cory Kohn. Skepticism. This is generally an important characteristic of scientists. Why would an attitude that is to be avoided in polite conversation act as a useful, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: A Tyrannosaurus and a virus walk into a bar…

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Alita Burmeister. … the scientist asks “Hey, what do you two have in common?” This summer I met Sue the T. rex. Her fossil remains are the largest, … Continue reading →

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