Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Speaker:
Dr. Nathan Young
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco & Program Director, MA in Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco
Abstract:
How development structures genetic variation to generate a diversity of phenotypic outcomes is a question that is key not only for our understanding of the origins of human health and disease but also the timing and nature of important functional changes in our...
Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Professor Robert Boyd
Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Cooperation based on reciprocity is undermined by perception errors, mistakes that cause interacting individuals to disagree about past behavior. Strategies like Win-Stay-Lose-Shift (WSLS) and Generous Tit for Tat (GTFT) can reestablish cooperation following a perception error but only when errors arise infrequently. Here I introduce a strategy that relies on third-party arbitration to resolve disagreements, and show that...