In a dog-eat-dog world, people still
cooperate, collaborate, and help each other out. Our species’ urge to work together has remained
an evolutionary paradox, seemingly at odds with Darwinian theory—until now.
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If you were a young adult Ethiopian wolf, you would have a choice to make: Should you be a member of a monogamous breeding pair or a helper to an already established breeding pair (who are probably your parents)? The choice seems obvious, right? I mean, who wants to be a helper? Why should you forgo all the glory and status of being part of the breeding pair to be a babysitter? 
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Being the top dog — or, in this case, the top gelada monkey — is even better if the alpha male is willing to concede at times to subordinates, according to a study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Duke University. Alpha male geladas who allowed subordinate competitors into their group had a longer tenure as leader, resulting in an average of three more offspring each during their lifetimes. More on COOPERATION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=cooperation
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Robots teach students to compete, cooperate | districts, competition, students, robotics, region, held, utpa, competed, immersed, valley (Robots teach students to compete, cooperate http://t.co/BA7iledK... Via Kalani Kirk Hausman
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Across history and cultures, religion increases trust within groups but also may increase conflict with other groups, according to an article in a special issue of Science. More on RELIGION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=religion
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New research shows how bacteria evolve to increase ecosystem functioning by recycling each other's waste. The study provides some of the first evidence for how interactions between species shape evolution when there is a diverse community.
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So, in sum, moral ecology is the abstract notion that it takes many behavioural strategies to promote high stable levels of cooperation, which helps explain evolved psychological diversity, which helps explain moral diversity.
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Over the last 30 years Nowak and his colleagues have created and investigated a series of evolutionary games, each based on how populations interact in the real world. To his surprise, cooperation has emerged as the most successful behaviour in game after game. And this isn't a question of moral judgment, this is all judged in the cold hard terms of the mathematics of evolution. Articles about COOPERATION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=cooperation
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In a dog-eat-dog world of ruthless competition and ‘survival of the fittest,’ new research reveals that individuals are genetically programmed to work together and cooperate with those who most resemble themselves.
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Working together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer simulation.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Male dolphins not only form a series of complex alliances based on their close relatives and friends but these alliances also form a shifting mosaic of overlapping geographic ranges within in an open social network, says a new...
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Different species often depend on one another. David Gonzales describes the remarkable relationship of the Clark's nutcracker and the whitebark pine, to illustrate the interdependency known as symbiosis. (Launching a series on How Things Work)
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David Sloan Wilson believes that ‘multilevel selection’ sees individuals evolve to behave in a way that benefits their group, which then does better as a result. It could have important implications for business.
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Evolutionary biologists have long wondered why cooperation remains a viable survival strategy, since there will always be others who cheat. Now, MIT physicists have found a possible answer to this question: Among yeast, cooperative members of the population actually have a better chance of survival than cheaters when a competing species is introduced into an environment.
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"Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree" "How do organizations think? In her book, Willful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan examines why businesses and the people who run them often ignore the obvious --... Via Darin L. Hammond
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Gee, maybe Freud did get it right when he proclaimed, “Biology is destiny.” New research shows that if you’re in the running to work on an important project at the office, the odds will be more in your favor if you’re the same gender as the colleague who’s choosing partners. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
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Rather than succumbing to the primitive “fight or flight” instinct, men actually become more sociable and cooperative when under stress, according to new psychological study.
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More on... SOCIAL NETWORKS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=social%20networks Via MyScienceWork
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Individuals are willing to sacrifice their own resources to promote equality in groups. These costly choices promote equality and are associated with behavior that supports cooperation in humans, but little is known about the brain processes involved. We use functional MRI to study egalitarian preferences based on behavior observed in the “random income game.” NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Not all acts of altruism are alike, says a new study. From bees and wasps that die defending their nests, to elephants that cooperate to care for young, a new mathematical model pinpoints the environmental conditions that favor one form of altruism over another. Articles about ALTRUISM: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=altruism
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SuperCooperators is a thought provoking book allowing you to explore a surprising area of mathematics, the maths of altruism. Articles about COOPERATION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=cooperation
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By developing computer simulations of neural networks that evolved over 50,000 generations, scientists at Trinity University have concluded that intelligence is an evolutionary byproduct of social teamwork.
Harry Madigan's curator insight,
October 4, 2014 2:53 AM
Similar to the second source i curated, this article explores the notion that intelligence is an evolutionary byproduct of social teamwork. The idea that without cooperation then intelligence would not be what it is today.
a perfect article for cooperative contribution :)
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Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza theoretically predict, in a scientific study, that contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals. These researchers have mathematically examined what occurs when groups of people who behave as the experiments say have to decide whether or not to cooperate, and how the existence of cooperation, globally or in the group, depends on the structure of the interactions.
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Want to get out of a burning building but can't see an exit? Don't follow the crowd, say complexity scientists who have modeled the behavior of mass evacuations.
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Biological research increasingly debunks the view of humanity as competitive, aggressive and brutish, a leading specialist in primate behavior told a major science conference Monday.
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It was refreshing to see some optimism in this piece :). I had been trudging through so many negative articles about uncredible and unauthentic pieces, however finding this reinforced my faith.
This article explores the notion of collaboration and cooperation being a characteristic of human nature.
I found it difficult to rank this piece below "How to destroy your credibility by sacrificing Authenticity" as it is extremely informative and inspiring, yet though it is more so based on theory and ideology i feel the former source is more imperative.