May 23, 2002
wannabe
OK, here's where I wanna be:
Understanding how complex societies are organized and evolve is still a central question in evolutionary biology. We now know that in order to understand how social organization evolves, we must understand the mechanisms that link the different levels of biological and social organization. We must determine the transformational algorithms that link gene to neural system, neural system to individual behavior, and individual behavior to social organization.
This is one of the core themes of the Santa Fe Institute’s Program in Evolutionary Dynamics funded by the W.M. Keck Foundation.