{"id":5152,"date":"2018-02-24T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2018-02-27T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:18:45","slug":"the-evolution-of-altruism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-evolution-of-altruism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Altruism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Jonathan Birch\/\u00a0Heikki Helanter\u00e4\/ Hannah Rubin<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p>Listen to the recording <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20180224_1100_theEvolutionOfAltruism.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3ePVPIKVTTs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If evolution is a &#8216;struggle for existence&#8217;, why do we witness so much altruism in nature? From bacteria to baboons, the natural world is full of spectacular examples of organisms cooperating with one another. In the early 1960s, W. D. Hamilton changed the way we think about how such behaviour evolves, and his pioneering work kick-started a research programme now known as &#8216;social evolution theory&#8217;. Our panel of biologists and philosophers of biology will discuss the legacy of Hamilton\u2019s ideas, and the evolution of altruism in microbes, insects, humans, and the cells of our own bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/jonathan-birch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jonathan Birch<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Fellow, The Forum; Assistant Professor of Philosophy, LSE<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinki.fi\/science\/ants\/Heikki.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Heikki Helanter\u00e4<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Group Leader, Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions, University of Helsinki<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hannahrubin.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Hannah Rubin<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/personal.lse.ac.uk\/robert49\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryan Roberts<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, LSE<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/CPNSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPNSS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 24 February 2018 at the LSE<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Birch\/\u00a0Heikki Helanter\u00e4\/ Hannah Rubin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[57,87],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-philosophyofscience","tag-philosophysocialsciences"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2017\/11\/7-The-Evolution-of-Altruism.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1l6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5154,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/5154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}