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Cooperation and Competition

Wish List

• Competition--what is it?

  • Molecular level--selfish genes

  • Cellular level--antibiotic resistance

  • Organismal level--Darwin's finches

• Cooperation

  • almost always understood among or between levels

  • role in stabilizing particular levels of organization

  • Great cellular example--ensymbiosis of organelles

  • Great oganismal level--eusocial insects

• Reality is probably much more complex combination of both

• How do we understand human societies?

COMPETITION

Selfish Genes--examples?

Cell Level Competition--antibiotic resistant bacteria

APUA--Association for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics

Organismal-Level Competition--Darwin's (and Grants') finches

Peter and Rosemary Grant--overview

COOPERATION

Nowak, Five Simple Rules for Cooperation--nice simple article

PowerPoint from Nowak--very complete!

Cellular Cooperation---evolution of mitochondria by endosymbiosis

Complexity of Mitochondria--from article on parasitism

Endosymbiotic mitochondria and immune response-interesting article

Organismal level cooperation--eusocial insects

From The Evolution of Eusociality...others and E.O. Wilson

Complex Interactions involve competition and cooperation

Nature Article--"Bacterial Charity Leads to Population-wide Resistance"

From Ambrust Lab

From your text analyzing how major evolutionary transitions--transitions in level--involve previous replicators who might have been more prone to compete come together to cooperate within the new level.

Evolution Competition Cooperation Games

Best and easy online prisoner's dilemma game--hours of fun--try all the strategies!

Avida-Ed--digital evolution

Web Resources

Very interesting blog post from George Mobus, U. Washington, on cooperation and competition...applies all the way to evolution of human societies

Nowak, Five Simple Rules for Cooperation--nice simple article

Nature Knowledge Project---good article on cooperation and evolution of complex animal societies

Best and easy online prisoner's dilemma game--hours of fun--try all the strategies!

Joseph Tobias and Peter Grant--even Darwin Finch folks question importance of competition (article from Wired)

Sustainable Fisheries Game--too simple?

 Richard Lenski long-term experimental E. coli evolution (50,000 generations, 25 years)

Intelligence from simple physics--digital or biological

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