Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny - The Evolution of Altruism, part 2

Here is the 2nd batch of videos from the Evolution of Altruism symposium at the University of California at San Diego, in conjunction with the Jonas Salk Institute. The symposium was held Friday, December 10th, 2010. The first video is the complete session, the other shorter videos are the individual presentations.

Explore the biological basis of the evolution of cooperation, how and why societies organize to suppress the "free-rider" and how the ecology of societies influence the evolution of cooperation and altruism Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [4/2011]

CARTA: Human Altruism - Cooperation: Biology/Ecology, Free-Rider

Christopher Boehm, Steve Frank, and Christophe Boesch explore the biological basis of the evolution of cooperation, how and why societies organize to suppress the “free-rider” and how the ecology of societies influence the evolution of cooperation and altruism.

Social Selection and the Notorious Free-Rider
~ Christopher Boehm, University of Southern California



Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism
~ Christopher Boesch, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology



Social Evolution in Animals and Humans
~ Steve Frank, University of California, Irvine



Mechanisms Underlying Behaviors that Obey the Golden Rule
~ Donald Pfaff, The Rockefeller University

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