Evolutionary Perspective on Collective Decision Making: Project Homepage. This project was supported by the NSF Human and Social Dynamics Program (Award #: NSF SES-0826711).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. [About] [Team] [Publications and Presentations] [Resources] [Contact Us] About the Project Collective decision making plays an increasingly important role everywhere in today's human society.
Existing literature addresses issues in collective decision making with linear statistical analysis or relatively simple dynamical modeling. In this NSF-funded project which ran from 2008 through 2012, researchers developed and proposed novel conceptual/computational multi-level models of the dynamics of complex collective decision making by uniquely shifting the viewpoint from the dynamics of participants to the dynamics of ideas being discussed.
Research Team Principal investigators. Dr. Michael Blume. NESCent: The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. Molecular Insights in Classic Examples of Evolution. Extreme Evolution Geekery: Molecular Primatology. Evolution. Evolution. Thisviewoflife. Bonobos Join Chimps as Closest Human Relatives. Category: Biology Post: June 14, 2012 11:14 pm Author: Ann Gibbons Source: Science Chimpanzees now have to share the distinction of being our closest living relative in the animal kingdom.
An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it shares the same percentage of its DNA with us as chimps do. The team also found some small but tantalizing differences in the genomes of the three species—differences that may explain how bonobos and chimpanzees don't look or act like us even though we share about 99% of our DNA. "We're so closely related genetically, yet our behavior is so different," says team member and computational biologist Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. DarwinTunes software ‘evolves’ music without composers. Category: Arts Manuscript from Igreja de Sao Francisco, Evora, Portugal.
E.O. Wilson, John Horgan, and the Evolution of War. iStockphoto Wilson and Horgan exchange views on group selection and the human history of conflict Post: June 21, 2012 12:24 am Source: Discover Magazine E.O.
Wilson, "Is War Inevitable? " The Evolving Universe. Message de Paul Krugman aux “Français” et…les autres. If you read some of my previous posts on the economy and the crisis of the eurozone, you would know already my opinion about the stupidity of fiscal austerity during recessionary cycle.
Well, i hate to say it, but i have been right all along. This past week, however, more and more European policymakers have been softly whispering another tune and getting themselves ready to leave the sinking austerity policy ship to board the demand-side one. It warms my heart that they have finally seen the light. Stand up for REAL science. Critical analysis is at the heart of the scientific process.
Scientists have been critically analyzing evolutionary theory for nearly 150 years. The Evolution Institute. Evolution: Education and Outreach for free. Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal aspiring to promote accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — will be freely available through December 31, 2011, thanks to the generosity of its publisher, Springer.
Edited by Niles Eldredge (who received NCSE's Friend of Darwin award in 2011) and Greg Eldredge, Evolution: Education and Outreach quickly became a hub for thoughtful discussion of evolution education, with a host of scientific articles, curriculum and education articles, editorials, viewpoint articles, and reviews of books and other media. And now you can access it all — for the rest of the year.
NCSE is amply represented, of course: NCSE's regular column, Overcoming Obstacles to Evolution Education; Louise S. S Newton on creationism and climate change denial. Home-33133. April 15, 2014 The Permian mass extinction coincided with the timing of a disruption in the Earth’s carbon cycle - but what, or who, played a part in the die-out?
The Neighborhood Project: Putting Evolution to Work in the Real World : Evolution for Everyone. My new book, The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time, was published by Little, Brown last Wednesday and featured on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition today.
My main objective in writing the book is to show how evolutionary science can be used to improve our lives in a practical sense, at scales both small and large. This has been the thrust of my own research over the past five years, both locally in my hometown of Binghamton, New York, and globally through the formation of the Evolution Institute, the first think tank for formulating public policy from an evolutionary perspective. I use my personal odyssey as a narrative vehicle, but The Neighborhood Project is written as much for my academic colleagues as for the general public. Putting evolution to work in the real world might even cause more people in America to accept it. Science is accepted when it becomes engineering. Ni Dieu ni Darwin - Les Français et la théorie de l'évolution - Dominique Guillo.
Note de lecture de Yann Kindo - SPS n° 295, avril 2011 Dans cette enquête relevant de la psychologie et de la sociologie de la connaissance, Dominique Guillo, chercheur au CNRS, sociologue et historien des sciences, remet en cause un schéma dominant, selon lequel, alors que beaucoup d’Américains sont souvent anti-darwiniens et portés au créationnisme par conviction religieuse, les Français sont au contraire très largement imprégnés des idées darwiniennes.
C’est à cette perception de l’évolution par les non-spécialistes que s’intéresse le chercheur, qui mobilise pour cela quatre champs d’investigation successifs pour mener son enquête sur les représentations hexagonales : Un panel d’ouvrages d’histoire des sciences et de manuels scolaires de lycée, à propos de l’histoire des idées évolutionnistes. Des textes courts donc, pour lesquels la nécessité de faire œuvre synthétique pousse à mettre en avant ce que l’on juge essentiel. Petits chromos publicitaires de la fin du XIXe s. Index - Welcome.
Evolution Matters 2011 - Harvard Museum of Natural History. Home. London Evolutionary Research Network. Speciation and Macroevolution by Jeremy Mohn on Prezi. Evolution. Here then is the beta version of my strip about evolution. This is a chapter of the book Science Stories which will be out from Myriad Editions next spring. I'm sure there'll be mistakes here, so do feel free to point them out, so that I can make the necessary changes. Thank you. Note Oct 2013. Hi All. S BioInteractive - Evolution. Series Where and when did humans arise? What distinguishes us from other species? Did our distant ancestors look and behave like us?
How has the amazing diversity of plants and animals evolved? Welcome to Evolution 101! National Center for Science Education - Defending the Tea. Understanding Evolution.