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Evolution made us cheats, now free-riders run the world and we need to change, new book warns

17 Jun 2025
To save democracy and solve the world's biggest challenges, we need to get better at spotting and exposing people who exploit human cooperation for...
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Speed of animal evolution enhanced by cooperative behaviour

26 May 2017
A study by scientists from the University of Cambridge has revealed how cooperative behaviour between insect family members changes how rapidly body...
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Meerkats

Cooperation helps mammals survive in tough environments

24 Jan 2017
New research suggests that cooperative breeding makes mammal species such as meerkats better suited to dry, harsh climates.
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Photo of a white wolf of Canada, taken Gevaudan wolf park in Lozère

Wolf species have ‘howling dialects’

08 Feb 2016
The largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more...
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Cooperation

Cooperative communities emerge in transparent social networks

09 Mar 2015
An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are rendered...
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Male Eurasian jays know that their female partners’ desires can differ from their own

26 Mar 2014
New research shows that male jays are able to disengage from their own current desires to feed their female partner food that she wants.
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