Pr. Iain Couzin (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) was recently invited to participate in the first live event of the AWE-MAGEDDON series organized by Radiolab, a popular scientific radio show on WNYC. Hereafter is an excerpt of this show where Iain Couzin introduces the work done at his lab and answer to some [...]

On March 1, 2010, the New York Times has published an interesting article about the role of culture as a force at play in natural selection. The author, Nicholas Wade, reviews and summarizes thoughts and ideas that have emerged recently (but were floating around since several years) about the strong link that may exist between [...]