Collaborative Research: Integrative Approach to Understanding the Emergence of Alternate S — NSF Award to University of Georgia Re
Cooperation has been a longstanding evolutionary problem because cooperators suffer an individual fitness loss to provide benefits to other individuals in the group. A notable solution to this problem involves the greenbeard effect, first conceived of by W.D. Hamilton in the early 1960s as a thought experiment to expla
| Award title | Collaborative Research: Integrative Approach to Understanding the Emergence of Alternate S |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2624279 |
| Awardee | University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc |
| City | ATHENS |
| State | GA |
| Amount obligated | $64,721 |
| Principal investigator | Shayla Salzman |
| Program | Animal Behavior |
| Start date | 04/01/2026 |
| Abstract | Cooperation has been a longstanding evolutionary problem because cooperators suffer an individual fitness loss to provide benefits to other individuals in the group. A notable solution to this problem involves the greenbeard effect, first conceived of by W.D. Hamilton in the early 1960s as a thought experiment to explain the evolution of altruism, and later popularized by R. Dawkins. The main tenet of the greenbeard effect is that there exists a hypothetical gene, or set of linked genes, that ex |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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