Andy Gardner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4152290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andy Gardner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1304-3734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
R. A. Fisher on J. A. Cobb's The problem of the sex-ratio
The logic of the rarer-sex effect, concerning how natural selection acts to balance the sex ratio among newborns, was long supposed to have originated with Ronald Aylmer Fisher in his 1930 book The genetical theory of natural selection . However, the principle is now understood to have originated with John Austin Cobb in his 1914 paper ‘The problem of the sex-ratio’. Fisher did not provide a citation of Cobb's sex-ratio paper, and it has been unc…
Kin selection favors religious traditions
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the role of religious systems as drivers of the evolution of cooperation in human societies. One suggestion is that a cultural tradition of ancestor worship might have evolved as a "descendant-leaving strategy" of ancestors by encouraging increased altruism particularly between distant kin. Specifically, Coe and others have suggested a mechanism of cultural transmission exploiting social learning biases,…
Kin selection as a modulator of human handedness
The frequency of left-handedness in humans is ~10% worldwide and slightly higher in males than females. Twin and family studies estimate the heritability of human handedness at around 25%. The low but substantial frequency of left-handedness has been suggested to imply negative frequency-dependent selection, e.g. owing to a ‘surprise’ advantage of left-handers in combat against opponents more used to fighting right-handers. Because such game-theo…
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection
This research was supported by a Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship (grant no. NE/K009524/1) and a European Research Council Consolidator (grant no. 771387)
The demography of human warfare can drive sex differences in altruism
Fisher’s Reproductive Value
Kin Selection
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans
Social semantics
From an evolutionary perspective, social behaviours are those which have fitness consequences for both the individual that performs the behaviour, and another individual. Over the last 43 years, a huge theoretical and empirical literature has developed on this topic. However, progress is often hindered by poor communication between scientists, with different people using the same term to mean different things, or different terms to mean the same …
Social semantics
From an evolutionary perspective, social behaviours are those which have fitness consequences for both the individual that performs the behaviour, and another individual. Over the last 43 years, a huge theoretical and empirical literature has developed on this topic. However, progress is often hindered by poor communication between scientists, with different people using the same term to mean different things, or different terms to mean the same …
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans
Kin Selection
Fisher’s Reproductive Value
The demography of human warfare can drive sex differences in altruism
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection
This research was supported by a Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship (grant no. NE/K009524/1) and a European Research Council Consolidator (grant no. 771387)
Kin selection favors religious traditions
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the role of religious systems as drivers of the evolution of cooperation in human societies. One suggestion is that a cultural tradition of ancestor worship might have evolved as a "descendant-leaving strategy" of ancestors by encouraging increased altruism particularly between distant kin. Specifically, Coe and others have suggested a mechanism of cultural transmission exploiting social learning biases,…
Kin selection as a modulator of human handedness
The frequency of left-handedness in humans is ~10% worldwide and slightly higher in males than females. Twin and family studies estimate the heritability of human handedness at around 25%. The low but substantial frequency of left-handedness has been suggested to imply negative frequency-dependent selection, e.g. owing to a ‘surprise’ advantage of left-handers in combat against opponents more used to fighting right-handers. Because such game-theo…
R. A. Fisher on J. A. Cobb's The problem of the sex-ratio
The logic of the rarer-sex effect, concerning how natural selection acts to balance the sex ratio among newborns, was long supposed to have originated with Ronald Aylmer Fisher in his 1930 book The genetical theory of natural selection . However, the principle is now understood to have originated with John Austin Cobb in his 1914 paper ‘The problem of the sex-ratio’. Fisher did not provide a citation of Cobb's sex-ratio paper, and it has been unc…
Biology (8 works) · Evolutionary biology (6 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 works) · Kin selection (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)