International Society for the Systems Sciences keynote address: Building a global superorganism, a new paradigm for a species in peril
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DOI: 10.1002/sres.2747
Abstract: Abstract The growth-oriented economic strategy that has largely prevailed in Western societies over the past two centuries is literally at a dead-end, along with our global system of independent and sometimes deeply competitive nation states… read more here.
Keywords: society systems; superorganism; global superorganism; international society ... See more keywords
Increased investment in the defence of high-value offspring by a superorganism
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.07.008
Abstract: Parental investment theory predicts that parents should adjust their investment in offspring defence according to offspring value (i.e. the probability they will contribute to the next generation). Although previous research has shown this offspring value… read more here.
Keywords: superorganism; defence; theory; investment ... See more keywords