Two days ago I gave a lecture to students and staff at the University of Leiden and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre Leiden. The lecture, on the Deep Evolutionary Drivers of Cooperation (Loss), was followed by a very enjoyable discussion with Leiden’s MSc students
Workshop on ‘Evolving Utilities’ coming up end May
With collaborators in the Departments of Zoology, Economics and the Blavatnik School of Government I am leading a Balliol Interdisciplinary Institut project on the use of evolutionary approaches in behavioural economics. Can evolutionary biology help explain why humans don’t (always) act as homo