If released in the wild, current CRISPR-based gene drive systems designed to alter populations could spread much farther than intended, despite the evolution of drive resistance.
Hamilton's rule can be violated when costs and benefits of cooperation are defined using the counterfactual method, and when they depend on the cooperation of others.
A neural network model of the hippocampus exhibits a division of labor across its two main pathways during category learning, with one pathway specializing in extracting systematic category information and another in encoding arbitrary details.
Intra-individual variability in choice, response time, subjective effort, confidence, and choice-induced preference change and certainty gain is explained by a cost–benefit model of cognitive resource allocation.
By considering a new form of social cheat strategy, arms-races-like dynamics between coevolving selfish traits could emerge from the tragedy of the commons and help explain the variations in cheating levels observed in many microbes and eusocial insects.
A computer model of the mouse visual cortex shows that local brain circuits are organized as switches whose states are coded as neuronal oscillations with different frequencies.