Trine Bilde: The evolution of animal cooperation - and lessons from social spiders
An IMC seminar with professor of evolutionary ecology, Trine Bilde, Department of Bioscience,
Aarhus University.
The evolution of animal cooperation - and lessons from social spiders
The evolution of cooperation is puzzling, because helping behaviour is costly to the actor. Selfish behaviour favoured by natural selection is therefore a threat to cooperation as an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). I will discuss ESS models of cooperation, and present empirical work testing some of these models in social spiders.