Altruism and envy in contests: an evolutionarily stable symbiosis

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable. -- Untersucht wird das Wettbewerbsverhalten von Individuen in Turnieren oder turnierähnlichen Konfliktsituationen, wenn die Individuen Altruismus oder Neid gegenüber ihren Konkurrenten empfinden. Die Arbeit bestimmt das Gleichgewicht in Turnieren, in denen die Spieler nicht wissen, ob ihr Konkurrent Altruismus oder Neid empfindet. Die Arbeit untersucht ferner die evolutionäre Dynamik von Populationen von Altruisten und Spielern mit Neidgefühlen. Es zeigt sich, dass eine Population mit einem bestimmten Anteil von Altruisten und einem bestimmten Anteil von Spielern mit Neidgefühlen evolutionär stabil ist.Altruism,envy,contests,evolutionary stability

Altruism and Envy in Contests: An Evolutionarily Stable Symbiosis

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.altruism, envy, contests, evolutionary stability

God, Neo-Symbiosis, and the Unlearning of the Social Darwinist Narrative

The evidence for symbiosis as a mechanism in evolution suggests that nature is not only competitive in the Darwinist sense, but also inherently creative and cooperative. The author grounds the concept of God\'s transformative power within this scientific mechanism of symbiosis, and argues against competition as the dominant social metaphor

3rd Place Contest Entry: Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis Phenotypes

This is Yoobeen Lee, Teresa Hur, Isaac Min, and Sydni Au Hoy\u27s submission for the 2022 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize, which won third place. It contains their essay on using library resources, their bibliography, and a summary of their research project on legume-rhizobium symbiosis phenotypes. All four authors are fourth-year students at Chapman University. Yoobeen is majoring in Psychology, Teresa and Isaac are majoring in Health Sciences, and Syndi Au Hoy is majoring in Biological Sciences. Their faculty mentor is Dr. Kenjiro Quides

Cosmic Evolution and the Theology of Social Solidarity

This essay is concerned with the intersection between theology, social theory, and evolution. In an effort to sketch an ecologically sound theology of social solidarity and a global ethics, the author examines constructive theologies that take cosmic evolution as a central organizing principle. While the inherent utopianism of Washington Gladden \'s social gospel cannot be revived, his theology provides useful insights into the creative use of scientific and religious discourse for a contemporary democratic theology in search of the common good

On the evolution of prize perceptions in contests

We apply an indirect evolutionary approach to players' perceived prize valuations in contests. Evolution in finite populations leads to preferences that overstate the prize's material value and induce overexpenditure. We establish an equivalence between the behavior evolutionarily stable preferences induce and evolutionarily stable strategies.Contest; Prize valuation; Preference evolution; Evolutionarily stable preferences

A collection of tools for factory eco-efficiency

co-efficiency is generally defined as doing more with less, aiming to decouple environmental impact from economic and social value creation. This paper presents three tools to guide the implementation of eco-efficiency in factories: (1) definition and patterns of good practices for sustainable manufacturing, (2) a self-assessment tool and maturity grid, and (3) a factory modelling framework

Methodological reflections on media and counter hegemonic protest in India

This paper sets the issues and questions for interdisciplinary academic study of local protest with global claims,as it relates to use of the media. The author presents an historical background before then using the example of Arundhati Roy's writing on the Narmada Dams controversy and her essay 'walking with the comrades' on jungle Naxalite protest in India as a vehicle for analysis the uses of new Gramsci'ist counter hegemony theory, combined with elements of Judith Butler's ideas on performance and the media. What do these mean for activist articulations in the media

The Evolution of Diversity

Since the beginning of time, the pre-biological and the biological world have seen a steady increase in complexity of form and function based on a process of combination and re-combination. The current modern synthesis of evolution known as the neo-Darwinian theory emphasises population genetics and does not explain satisfactorily all other occurrences of evolutionary novelty. The authors suggest that symbiosis and hybridisation and the more obscure processes such as polyploidy, chimerism and lateral transfer are mostly overlooked and not featured sufficiently within evolutionary theory. They suggest, therefore, a revision of the existing theory including its language, to accommodate the scientific findings of recent decades