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http://www.newscientist.com/special/living-in-denial

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.newscientist.com/special/living-in-denial Not just a river in Egypt.

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Medical Physiology; Stellenbosch Faculty of Health Sciences

Stumbleupon Review of : http://sun025.sun.ac.za/portal/page/portal/Health_Sciences/English/Departments/Biomedical_Sciences/MEDICAL_PHYSIOLOGY/Essays/koinophilia © juliebee The problem with cooperation is that although a group of cooperative individuals is fitter than an equivalent group of selfish individuals, selfish individuals interspersed amongst a community of cooperators are fitter than their … Continue reading

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cis.org.au/Publications/occasionalpapers/op91intro.pdf

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.cis.org.au/Publications/occasionalpapers/op91intro.pdf Forward – by Kenneth (kylie’s Dad) Minogue Thomas Hobbes, back in the seventeenth century, based his political philosophy on the belief that one of the greatest of human pleasures–perhaps the greatest–was feeling superior to others. … Continue reading

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iriss

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper32.htm r0x0rs!

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H. Geser: Toward a (Meta-)sociology of the digital Sphere

Stumbleupon Review of : http://socio.ch/intcom/t_hgeser13.htm its teh awesome!

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Michael W. Macy: Social Order in Artificial Worlds

Stumbleupon Review of : http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/1/1/4.html Abstract How does social order emerge among autonomous but interdependent agents? The expectation of future interaction may explain cooperation based on rational foresight, but the “shadow of the future” offers little leverage on the problem … Continue reading

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Dawkins Biomorph Viewer

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.rennard.org/alife/english/biomgb.html Biomorph Viewer allows you to intervene directly on the genome. Click one of the genes in the last square and move the mouse, the corresponding genes will be automatically modified. If, during this process, the … Continue reading

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Amazon.com: The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Ch

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393020118/ The first thing that Harvard University biology professor Stephen Palumbi wants you to know is that evolution is a fact, not a theory. The second is this: evolution does not require eons and eons to … Continue reading

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Species evolve to the brink of evolution

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/view.article.php?ArticleID=20738 A biologist at The University of Texas at Austin has presented a new theory that sheds light on how organisms, including viruses like HIV, rapidly evolve in the face of vaccines and antibiotics. Dr. Lauren … Continue reading

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sprachevolution.html

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.uboeschenstein.ch/sal/index_EvoSpr.html From the page: “The Cultural Origins of HUMAN COGNITION …human beings evolved a new form of social cognition, which enabled some new forms of cultural learning, which enabled some new processes of sociogenesis and cumulative … Continue reading

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