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BEACON Researchers at Work: Ecology and evolution of scent production in PNW Sasquatch
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington students Sarah Hammarlund and Katie Dickinson. The existence of the Sasquatch (also referred to as Bigfoot) has been debated for centuries. Alleged witnesses have described the forest-dwelling … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving division of labor
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Anya Johnson. Have you ever looked around you and thought about the amazing feats that organisms accomplish together? The most obvious examples are of course everything that humans … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: When Cooperating Means Just Saying No
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington postdoc Brian Connelly. Evolutionary biologists often talk like economists, particularly when the topic is cooperation. Instead of dollars, euros, or pounds, the universal currency in evolution is fitness. A species that … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Cheaters never win
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Adam Waite. Why do we cooperate? It’s easy enough to understand the benefits of cooperation. When we pay taxes, for example, we are contributing to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The social lives of bacteria
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Eric Bruger. Why play well with others when you can get away with just looking out for your own self-interest? This is a sentiment not only left to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of Cooperation in Artificial Systems
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Daniel Couvertier. We have all seen the wonders of evolution in the biological world. We have marveled at the great variety in the creatures that share the … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Survival of the weakest – when doing poorly does best
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Joshua Nahum. “Survival of the fittest” is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer upon his reading of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to describe the … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Role of Environment in the Evolution of Cooperation
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Brian Connelly. Cooperation is something that most people take for granted. It’s woven into just about every part of our lives. Our societies have even developed a wide … Continue reading