Archivo de Tags ‘Evolution’

[FullCICS] Understanding human behavior from a functional perspective

Wednesday, 1 July, 2020 |
Interdiscipline is the central axis for the work at the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) of the Faculty of Government, UDD. In this sense, its institutional ...


Isabel Behncke: “We spend trillions of dollars on defense systems and we’re brought to our knees by a strand of RNA”

Monday, 13 April, 2020 |
These days the agenda of Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Primatologist and Researcher at the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) of the Universidad del Desarrollo, has been full. ...


Two CICS researchers publish study related to Mozart’s master piece and complex social networks

Thursday, 20 June, 2019 |
[caption id="attachment_3514" align="alignleft" width="150" class="align-left align-left "] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[/caption] By the end of June, the book Evolution and Popular Narrative, edited by Dirk Vanderbeke and Brett ...


Strong presence of CICS researchers and DCCS students in the 31st version of the HBES 2019 Congress in Boston

Wednesday, 5 June, 2019 |
Presentations covered topics as diverse as the role of social joy in evolution, elicitation jealousy in the laboratory, demographic processes and adherence to social norms; and the ...


Isabel Behncke and her visit to the Congo: “It helped me a lot to have tolerance for uncertainty”

Friday, 17 May, 2019 |
With a full space with more than 100 people, Isabel Behncke, primatologist, PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and collaborating researcher at the Research ...


Isabel Behncke: a “mujer bacana” of the CICS who joins Violeta Parra and Joan of Arc

Tuesday, 12 March, 2019 |
A few years ago, the journalists Sofía García Huidobro, Fernanda Claro, Concepción Quintana and Isabel Plant, began to write a blog where they uploaded the biography of ...


The effects demographic transition has on the social network, is the topic addressed by CICS researcher, Tamas David-Barrett, in his most recent paper

Tuesday, 26 February, 2019 |
Why falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration leads to a major shift in the way our societies work.  Consequence: the traditional way of norms being enforced by close-knit ...


[United Kingdom] CICS Researcher and DCCS Professor, Tamas David-Barrett, presents the Richard Wrangham’s new book on evolution, violence and war

Monday, 21 January, 2019 |
The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly known as the South Place Ethical Society, is considered the oldest free thought organization in the world and the only remaining ...


Tamas David-Barrett presented his last study “Matriocracy” in the UDD

Friday, 15 December, 2017 |
His research focuses mainly on the origins and development of social behaviors of humanity. The British scientist and researcher, Tamas David-Barret, exhibited at the Universidad del Desarrollo part ...


The evolution of developmental patterning under genetic duplication constraints

Thursday, 24 May, 2007 |
Miguel Angel Fuentes and David C. Krakauer. J. R. Soc. Interface,  doi:10.1098/rsif.2007.1074, 2007. ABSTRACT Of considerable interest are the evolutionary and developmental origins of complex, adaptive structures and the ...