Mr. Kidd's "Social Evolution"

Social life, evolution of intelligence, behaviour and human brain size

Social life is one of the most critical factors of the evolution of the behavior of non-human primates and humans. Several factors, such as an increase in brain size, adaptive modules, and grooming, are related to the complexities of social groups. Although some scientists have mentioned foraging as a rival hypothesis for the evolution of behavior, in this research, we tried to investigate the ...

MR in evolution: applications of new technology.

The rapid evolution of MR technology and its application to spine imaging are demonstrated in the paper by Enzmann and his coauthors in this issue of the journal [1]. Their use of standard spin-echo and flow-sensitive pulse sequences show that, in certain cases, the radiologist can no longer be satisfied with describing MR findings as if the pathologic processes were static in nature. Instead ,...

Modelling Social Network Evolution

Most of the real social networks extracted from various data sources evolve and change their profile over time. For that reason, there is a great need to model evolution of networks in order to enable complex analyses of theirs dynamics. The model presented in the paper focuses on definition of differences between following network snapshots by means of Graph Differential Tuple.

Quantifying social group evolution

Social Evolution: New Horizons

Cooperation is a widespread natural phenomenon yet current evolutionary thinking is dominated by the paradigm of selfish competition. Recent advances in many fronts of Biology and Non-linear Physics are helping to bring cooperation to its proper place. In this contribution, the most important controversies and open research avenues in the field of social evolution are reviewed. It is argued tha...