Stuart will explain why cooperation is an evolutionary problem, and the way this problem has been solved in the natural world.
Biography
Stuart West is an evolutionary biologist whose main interest is how natural selection has led to the diversity of life that we see around us.
He is especially interested in the evolution of social behaviours, such as cooperation, altruism, spite, mutualism, and how these can influence major evolutionary transitions. He uses a mixture of techniques including theory, experiment, genomics and across species comparative studies. His empirical work has utilised a range of organisms, especially bacteria (experimental), insects (experimental & comparative), birds (comparative) and mammals (comparative).
