Stanley Stone Lecture Series presents The Evolution of Goodness
Join us for the annual Stanley Stone Lecture Series:
We humans often display acts of kindness and generosity, but we’re not alone- animals are also good to one another, sacrificing to help those around them. But… why? Why do both humans and animals show such altruistic, self-sacrificial behavior? Scientists and philosophers have long pondered this subject.
In a fast-moving, action-packed talk, Dr. Lee Alan Dugatkin (University of Louisville) will share the roots of goodness by focusing on both the fascinating history of this subject and the latest findings- the cutting-edge research in the field of evolution and behavior, including Dugatkin’s own work on altruism. Dugatkin will look at studies on alarm calls in squirrels, reciprocal acts of goodness in blood-sucking vampire bats, empathy in rats, responses to injustice and inequality in monkeys, and what brain scans tell us about the evolution of goodness in our own species.