New paper in our The Resolution of Evolutionary Conflicts within Species special feature for Royal Society Publishing:

'Resolving selfish and spiteful interdependent conflict'

by Alexander J. Stewart, Charlie Pilgrim, and Prof Nichola Raihani.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to see this out!

Blown away by the History of Science Collections at OU. Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Malthus, Chambers, and Paley. And that’s just a tiny fraction.

The highlight was this first edition of The Origin of Species.

Excited to visit beautiful Univ. of Oklahoma this week to give two talks:
- Department of Biology (Wednesday)
- Department of History of Science, Technology & Medicine (Thursday)

Haldane reacting to Tinbergen’s criticism of his English.

Remembered by Aubrey Manning.

Great to be back in Canada, if only for a brief visit to Geoff Wild and his fun colleagues at Western University.

Nice obituary of Frans de Waal in today’s NYT nytimes.com/2024/03/20/sci…

Replace utility with inclusive fitness and you have modern social evolution theory.

From Skidelsky’s fun What’s Wrong With Economics? (h/t Ambika Kamath (ambikamath.bsky.social))

“Never use a simple explanation if a more complicated one will do instead.”

“Never use a causal explanation if a teleological one will do instead.”

Patrick Bateson on the Cambridge and Oxford principles of studying animal behaviour.

First virtual meeting on Thursday, March 21! Still time to sign up internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Nick Davies on the family recognition he received after getting into Cambridge vs. passing his driving test.