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The Evolution of Altruism

Hosted by LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building

Speakers

Dr Jonathan Birch

Dr Jonathan Birch

Heikki Helanterä

Heikki Helanterä

Hannah Rubin

Hannah Rubin

Chair

Dr Bryan Roberts

If evolution is a 'struggle for existence', 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, WD Hamilton changed the way we think about how such behaviour evolves, and his pioneering work kick-started a research programme now known as 'social evolution theory'. The Forum brings together a panel of biologists and philosophers of biology will discuss the legacy of Hamilton’s ideas, and the evolution of altruism in microbes, insects, humans, and the cells of our own bodies.

Jonathan Birch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at LSE and author of The Philosophy of Social Evolution.

Heikki Helanterä is Group Leader in the Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions at the University of Helsinki.

Hannah Rubin is Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Groningen.

Bryan Roberts (@SoulPhysics) is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE.

Twitter hashtags for this event: #LSEBeveridge #LSEFestival

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0 running from Monday 19 to Saturday 24 February 2018, with a series of events rethinking the welfare state for the 21st century and the global context.

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