By taking into account that the cultural transmission is not perfect, i.e. culture can be lost, and that culture does not always promote population growth, we have shown that these factors may in fact lead to population extinction rather than stability and growth. The study suggests that future work must address more explicitly both the dynamics of resource consumption (e.g. environmentalist stances) and the cultural evolution of beliefs implicated in reproductive behavior (e.g. ideas about the preferred family size).
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 13251606In a series of lectures, we have presented above described findings at the ETH Zürich.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 13699350Methods of non-equilibrium statistical physics applied in evolutionary game theory indicate that both social diversity and coevolution are beneficial for the evolution of cooperation, and that highly heterogeneous social states may appear spontaneously via simple coevolutionary rules from an initially non-preferential setup. The findings convey the potentially disturbing message that large differences in status may arise spontaneously, and although they might evoke discomfort within the majority that is disprivileged, they are vital for keeping the population in a cooperative state.
B.04 Guest lecture
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