Cooperation in Nature

Abstract I will explain why cooperation is an evolutionary problem, and the way this problem has been solved in the natural world. Biography I am an evolutionary biologist whose main interest is how natural selection has led to the diversity of life that we see around us. I am especially interested in the evolution of social behaviours, such as cooperation, altruism, spite, mutualism, and how these can influence major evolutionary transitions. I use a mixture of techniques including theory, expe