Evolutionary dynamics act on populations. Neither genes, nor cells, nor individuals evolve; only populations evolve. In small populations, random drift dominates, whereas large populations are ...
A cooperator is someone who pays a cost, c, for another individual to receive a benefit, b. A defector pays no cost and does not distribute any benefits. In evolutionary biology, cost and benefit are ...
In 2008, the mathematician Oded Schramm died in a hiking accident in the Cascade mountains some 50 miles east of Seattle. Though he was just 46 years old, he had constructed entirely new areas of ...