The Evolution of Goodness, Justice and Empathy
Lee Dugatkin
Thursday, 22 Oct 2015 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Lee Alan Dugatkin is a professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at University of Louisville, where he studies the evolution of social behavior. He will discuss a question long pondered by evolutionary biologists and philosophers alike: Why are humans and animals good to one another and sacrifice to help those around them? Dugatkin is the author of more than 150 articles in such journals as Nature and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; several books, including Cooperation among Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective; Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees; and The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness; as well as the textbooks Evolution and Principles of Animal Behavior. Sigma Xi Lecture SeriesCosponsored By:
- Sigma Xi
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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