[QSB-grads] Fwd: [cis-unit-faculty] [cis-mts-announce] MTS Seminar October 30

[Paul Smaldino]

FYI. Some of you might be interested in this.

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Paul Smaldino, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cognitive and Information Sciences
Faculty Member, Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Group
University of California, Merced
http://www.smaldino.com

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Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:47 PM
Subject: [cis-unit-faculty] [cis-mts-announce] MTS Seminar October 30
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Hello All,

Our upcoming MTS Seminar for Ovtober 30 will be given by Professor Jeffrey
Schank of UC Davis.

Please let me know if you would like to meet with Prof. Schank informally
between 1:00-2:30 before the seminar or if you would like to join in the
post-seminar dinner.

The seminar location will be COB I 110 (our default location) from
3:00-4:30 pm. Seminar title and abstract are below:

*Towards a Theory of the Evolution of Fairness*


Fairness or what may be called fair behavior is surprisingly common in
human and animal societies.  By fairness I mean fair treatment of or
distribution of resources to others.  Of particular interest is altruistic
fairness in which analyses of the costs and benefits of fair behavior yield
no positive benefit for behaving fairly.  In my talk, I seek to understand
how fair behavior, which lacks benefits at the level of the individual,
could nevertheless evolve.  To shed some insight into this problem, I will
present results of three theoretical investigations using agent-based
models into the evolution of altruistic fair behavior: human behavior in
the dictator game, vampire bat blood sharing, and fair play among juvenile
animals of many species. In all three cases, fair behavior is shown to
evolve and do so when multilevel selection is modeled.  I will argue that
these three cases strongly suggest that fair behavior is selected at the
social level and that, at the social level, it is not the expected payoff
of fair behavior that is important but rather the reduction in variance in
payoffs that matters.


-- 
Peter Vanderschraaf

Professor of Philosophy
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road
Merced, CA 95343

http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/facultybio.asp?facultyid=126

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