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This lecture explores the complex relationship between diversification, fitness, and evolutionary speed as part of the "Decisions, Games, and Evolution" program at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. Delve into evolutionary principles that span biological scales from cellular to societal levels, with a focus on how cooperation emerges across these systems. Learn about evolutionary game theory frameworks that help explain both biological and cultural evolution, including phenomena like opinion dynamics, fairness evolution, and spiteful behavior. The presentation examines how individual choices in social conflicts are influenced by environmental factors and population network structures, the impact of learning strategies on collective outcomes, and how individual behavior shapes population-level evolutionary patterns. This 31-minute talk is part of a broader interdisciplinary program bringing together biologists, cognitive scientists, economists, and physicists to foster collaboration on understanding decision-making processes across all scales.
