The adaptive value of age, co-operation (and secret signals)
More elephant based news! A new study from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, published today, has found that elephants pay attention to the oldest female elephant in their group when a predator...
View ArticleAnimal Signalling Theory 101: Handicap, Index… or even a signal? The Case of...
The differences between handicaps and indices are usually distinguishable in formal mathematical models or in unambiguous real-world cases. Often though, classifying a trait as a handicap, an index,...
View ArticleCultural Evolution and the Impending Singularity: The Movie
Here’s a video of a talk I gave at the Santa Fe Institute‘s Complex Systems Summer School (written with roboticist Andrew Tinka-check out him talking about his fleet of floating robots). The talk was...
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