Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

An international research team concludes that gentle touch is not only good for mental health, but also for the evolution of cooperation. The power of touch and social connections helps people to cope ...

Everybody cheats. Even amoebae. Elizabeth Ostrowski, assistant professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston, was awarded a four-year, $696,634 grant from the National Science ...

The Society of Genes -- The Division of Labour -- The Prisoner's Dilemma -- Telling Hawks from Doves -- Duty and the Feast -- Public Goods and Private Gifts -- Theories of Moral Sentiments The Tribal ...

Human behavior is not governed solely by rationality or an innate moral compass. Instead, it reflects a complex interplay of self-interest, social dynamics, and survival pressures. Despite our species ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Previous scholars have widely proposed that the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities and sociality in humans originated in Africa during the MSA. However, the specific mechanisms ...