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Course Syllabus

September 17, 2001

• The Evolution of Cooperation (Axelrod)

• Prisoner's dilemma in an RNA virus (Turner)

• Phage-lift for game theory (Nowak)

• Game Theory and Cooperation (Dugatkin)

September 24, 2001

• Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring (Nowak)

• Evolution of cooperation through indirect reciprocity (Leimar)

• The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism (Trivers)

October 1, 2001

• The evolution of social behavior in microorganisms (Crespi)

• Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (Strassmann)

• Dynamics of Conflicts within Insect Societies (Keller)

October 8, 2001

• Parent-Offspring Conflict (Trivers)

• Genetic conflicts of interest in plants (Dominguez)

• Genetic relatedness among developing seeds and intra fruit seed abortion in Dalbergia Sissoo (Mohana)

October 15, 2001

• What are conventional signals? (Guilford)

• Animal Signals: mind-reading and manipulation (Krebs)

October 22, 2001

• Sexual cannibalism and sperm competition in the golden-orb spider Nephila plumipes (Schneider)

• Sexual conflict in animals (Lessells)

October 29, 2001

• Distinguishing mechanisms for the evolution of co-operation (Bull)

• The evolution of mutualisms: exploring the paths between conflict and cooperation (Herre)

November 5, 2001

• The evolution of polyandry I: intragenomic conflict and genetic incompatibility (Zeh)

• Transposable elements in sexual and ancient asexual taxa (Arkhipova)

Optional Readings:

• The Role of Selfish Genetic Elements in Eukaryotic Evolution (Hurst)

November 12, 2001

• The major evolutionary transitions (Szathmary)

• Chapter 4 (origin & early evolution of genetic replication)

Optional Readings:

• The Integration of the Earliest Genetic Information (Szathmary)

November 19, 2001

Class cancelled because of Ph.D. Thesis Defense at 2:00 p.m.

November 26, 2001

• Self-organization in social insects (Bonabeau)

• Self-organization in Biological Systems (Camazine)

December 3, 2001

• Levels of Selection: Burying the Units-of-Selection Debate and Unearthing the Crucial New Issues (Reeve)

• Artificial ecosystem selection (Swenson)