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by Rafe Sagarin


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  24 Choi, J. K., and S. Bowles. “The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War.” Science 318, no. 5850 (2007): 636–640.

  25 Gavrilets, S., E. A. Duenez-Guzman, and M. D. Vose. “Dynamics of Alliance Formation and the Egalitarian Revolution.” PLOS One 3, no. 10 (2008); Svensson, E. I. “Understanding the Egalitarian Revolution in Human Social Evolution.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24, no. 5 (2009): 233–235.

  26 De Quervain, D. J. F., U. Fischbacher, V. Treyer, M. Scheltham-mer, U. Schnyder, A. Buck, and E. Fehr. “The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment.” Science 305, no. 5688 (2004): 1254–1258.

  27 Wallace, B., D. Cesarini, P. Lichtenstein, and M. Johannesson. “Heritability of Ultimatum Game Responder Behavior.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, no. 40 (2007): 15631–15634.

  28 Axelrod, Robert. “The Evolution of Cooperation.” New York: Basic, 1984.

  29 Sigmund, K. “Punish or Perish? Retaliation and Collaboration Among Humans.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22, no. 11 (2007): 593–600.

  30 Leventhal, A., A. Ramlawi, A. Belbiesi, and R. D. Balicer. “Regional Collaboration in the Middle East to Deal with H5N1 Avian Flu.” British Medical Journal 333 (2006): 856–858.

  31 Gresham, Louise, Assad Ramlawi, Julie Briski, Mariah Richardson, and Terence Taylor. “Trust Across Borders: Responding to 2009 H1n1 Influenza in the Middle East.” Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science 7, no. 4 (2009): 399–404.

  32 Leventhal, A., A. Ramlawi, A. Belbiesi, and R. D. Balicer. “Regional Collaboration in the Middle East to Deal with H5N1 Avian Flu.” British Medical Journal 333 (2006): 856–858.

  33 Fischhoff, Baruch, Scott Atran, and Marc Sageman. “Mutually Assured Support: A Security Doctrine for Terrorist Nuclear Weapon Threats.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 618 (2008): 160–167.

  34 “Trench warfare.” http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Trench_warfare . Accessed August 12, 2010.

  35 The Carter Center. “Historic Cease-Fire Enables Health Workers to Attack Guinea Worm and Other Diseases in Sudan.” June 17, 1995. http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/doc169.html. Accessed August 12, 2010.

  36 Bronstein, Judith L. “Mutualism and Symbiosis.” Pp. 233–238 in Simon Levin, ed., The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

  37 Kiers, E. T., R. A. Rousseau, S. A. West, and R. F. Denison. “Host Sanctions and the Legume-Rhizobium Mutualism.” Nature 425, no. 6953 (2003): 78–81.

  38 Bronstein, Judith L. “Mutualism and Symbiosis.” Pp. 233–238 in Simon Levin, ed., The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

  39 Personal communication from Richard Cudney Bueno, September 2010.

  40 Allee, W. C. “Where Angels Fear to Tread: A Contribution from General Sociology to Human Ethics.” Science 97, no. 2528 (1943): 517–525.

  CHAPTER TEN

  1 McDougall, C. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, p. 176.

  2 Ibid., p. 177.

  3 Matthews, Robert. “The Heat Is On.” NewScientist, July 31, 2010, pp. 42–45.

  4 The Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance and A Public Health Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance. http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/actionplan/index.htm. Facts About Antibiotic Resistance. http://www.idsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=5650. Both accessed May 6, 2010.

  5 Nesse, R. M., and G. C. Williams. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. New York: Vintage, 1994.

  6 Nesse, R. M., and S. C. Stearns. “The Great Opportunity: Evolutionary Applications to Medicine and Public Health.” Evolutionary Applications 1 (2008): 28–48.

  7 Ostfeld, R. S., and F. Keesing. “Biodiversity and Disease Risk: The case of Lyme Disease.” Conservation Biology 14 (2000): 722–728.

  8 Dobson, A., et al. “Habitat Loss, Trophic Collapse, and the Decline of Ecosystem Services.” Ecology 87 (2006): 1915–1924.

  9 Ibid. In addition, see Keesing, F., R. D. Holt, and R. S. Ostfeld. “Effects of Species Diversity on Disease Risk.” Ecology Letters 9 (2006): 485–498; and Pongsiri, M. J., J. Roman, V. O. Ezenwa, T. L. Goldberg, H. S. Koren, S. C. Newbold, R. S. Ostfeld, S. K. Pattanayak, and D. J. Salkeld. “Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology.” BioScience 59 (2009): 945–954. These are all good reviews of the relationship between biodiversity and infectious disease.

  10 United Nations. Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity—Power, Poverty, and the Global Water Crisis. New York: United Nations Development Programme, 2006.

  11 Buttice, A. L., J. M. Stroot, D. V. Lim, P. G. Stroot, and N. A. Alcan-tar. “Removal of Sediment and Bacteria from Water Using Green Chemistry.” Environmental Science and Technology 44 (2010): 3514–3519.

  12 Davis, M. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Vintage, 1999.

  13 Gumprecht, B. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

  14 Ibid.

  15 Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures. http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/. Accessed April 29, 2010.

  16 The White House. “The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.” Washington, DC, 2006.

  17 Day, J. W., et al. “Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” Science 315 (2007): 1679–1684.

  18 The White House. “The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.” Washington, DC, 2006.

  19 Day, J. W., et al. “Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” Science 315 (2007): 1679–1684.

  20 Granek, E. F., and B. Ruttenberg. “The Protective Capacity of Mangroves During Tropical Storms: A Case Study from Wilma and Gamma in Belize.” Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting. Ventura, CA, 2007.

  21 “Mangroves Shielded Communities Against Tsunami.” October 28, 2005. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051028141252.htm. Accessed May 7, 2010. Danielsen, F., et al. “The Asian Tsunami: A Protective Role for Coastal Vegetation.” Science 310 (2005): 643.

  22 The White House. “The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.” Washington, DC, 2006.

  23 “Preparing the Ike Dike Defense.” Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB124407051124382899-lMyQjAxMDI5NDE0OTAxNzkwWj.html. Accessed May 7, 2010.

  24 “Migrants Finding Ways to Climb 18-Foot-Tall Border Fence.” Arizona Republic, November 15, 2008. http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/related/102700. Accessed June 3, 2010.

  25 “Napolitano Bludgeons Border-Fence Proposal.” WorldNet-Daily. com. December 21, 2005. http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=34017. Accessed August 10, 2010. Also see ibid.

  26 Wulf, William. Cyber Security Panel. Institute on Science for Global Policy Conference. Tucson, AZ, December 8, 2009.

  27 Wulf, William A., and Anita K. Jones. “Reflections on Cybersecurity.” Science 326 (2009): 943–944.

  28 Gordon, Deborah. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

  29 Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team. “USB Drives Commonly Used as an Attack Vector Against Critical Infrastructure.” 2010.

  30 “Recommendations for Appropriate Shoreline Stabilization Methods for the Different North Carolina Estuarine Shoreline Types.” North Carolina Estuarine Biological and Physical Processes Work Group and North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, 2006.

  31 Dorsey, J., P. M. Carter, S. Bergquist, and R. Sagarin. “Reduction of Fecal Indicator Bacteria (FIB) in the Ballona Wetlands Salt-water Marsh (Los Angeles Cou
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  CONCLUSION

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  3 Lincicome, Bernie. “Maybe Sitting Bull Had A Power Forward.” Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1996.

  4 Skeets, J. E. “Phil Jackson: Rodman Is the Greatest Athlete I’ve Ever Coached.” Sports.yahoo.com.

  5 “Online gamers enlisted by University of Washington deliver big-time scientific results.” Published: Sunday, September 18, 2011, 10:00 AM. Updated: Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 3:33 PM by Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian.

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  9 Foster, Mary, and Holbrook Mohr. “La. Spillway to Open, Flooding Cajun Country.” Associated Press, May 13, 2011. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110513/ap_on_re_us/us_mississippi_river_flooding. Accessed May 13, 2011.

  INDEX

  A

  Abdulmutallab, Umar

  Adaptability

  description

  price of

  “Red Queen hypothesis,”

  speeds in nature

  traits of adaptable organizations

  See also Learning adaptively; specific examples

  Adaptable cascade

  challenges and

  creative redundancy and

  decentralized organizations and

  description

  environmental protection and

  Google example

  learning and

  public trust doctrine and

  symbiotic partnerships

  Adolescents

  belief systems and

  brains of

  Afghanistan war (U.S.)

  IEDs and

  MRAPs and(fig.)

  Ospreys and

  simplifying U.S. strategy chart

  warfare changes with

  weaker side winning in

  Afghanistan war with Soviets

  Airline security

  behavioral screening

  changing responses of terrorists

  shoe-bomber and

  single vs. multiple entities and

  statistics on

  uncertainty and

  See also 9/11 attacks

  Al-Awlaki, Anwar

  Al-Qaeda

  adaptability of

  bin Laden’s death and

  information use

  as “leaderless jihad,”

  organization structure/changes

  publicity and

  resources and

  risks from sharing information

  See also specific events; specific individuals

  Alarm systems/problems

  false alarms and

  re-sampling

  smoke detectors

  tsunami warning systems

  uncertainty and

  Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

  Alcorta, Candace

  Algae

  physical threats to

  symbiotic relationships

  Alhumaidan, Khaled

  “Allee effects,”

  Allee, Warder

  background

  competition leading to cooperation

  cooperation vs. competition

  cooperative relationships

  observation and

  Ricketts and

  on warfare/peace

  Alvarez, Luis/Walter

  Anemone, sea

  Anthrax attacks (2001)

  Apartheid end

  Army Corps of Engineers

  Arquilla, John

  Asian tsunami. See Tsunami, Asia

  Associative learning

  Atran, Scott

  jihadists recruitment

  sacred values

  terrorism and publicity

  B

  Bacteria

  symbiotic relationships

  viruses and

  See also specific diseases

  Baker, David

  Barabasi, Albert-László

  Barnacles

  Barnes, Peter

  Bass, Edward

  Beaufort, North Carolina NOAA facility

  Beckstrom, Rod

  Beetles

  Behavioral recognition

  Behavioral screening

  Berlow, Eric

  Bin Laden, Osama

  Biology

  applications to society (overview)

  humans’ similarities to other species

  molecular biology status

  natural history education and

  nested quality of

  recursive processes

  See also specific components

  Bioluminescence

  Biomimicry

  Biosphere 1 and 2,

  Blink (Gladwell)

  Blumstein, Dan

  Born to Run (McDougall)

  Boxer, Barbara

  Boyd, John

  Brafman, Ori

  Brains (human)

  adolescents

  organization of information

  uncertainty and

  British Petroleum

  Bush, George W.

  Bycatch reduction devices

  Bycatch, Sea of Cortez (1940)

  C

  Campbell, Joseph

  Cannery Row (Steinbeck)

  “Cap and trade” programs

  Carroll, Lewis

  Carson, Rachel

  Carter, Jimmy

  Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

  Centipedes

  Central control

  assumptions on

  organization failure and

  organizations and (fig.)

  See also Osprey

  Challenges

  3M’s Pollution Prevention Pays program

  adaptable cascade and

  bycatch reduction devices example

  DARPA

  decentralized organizations and

  lost camera and

  oil cleanup example

  orders vs.

  Toyota cars sudden acceleration

  university class example

  Chattanooga Free Press

  Cicadas, periodical

  Circadian rhythms

  Climate change

  effects

  ignoring evidence of

  manipulative experiments and

  Clinton, Bill

  Closed systems

  Coexistence

  Cold War

  escalation concept and

  missile defense shield

  “missile gap” concept

  “mutually assured destruction” (MAD)

  Commensalism

  Conflicts

  adapting to changes in

  Westphalia era of

  See also specific conflicts; Stability-inducing conflicts

  Conflicts with weaker side winning

  “coming s
warm” and

  mass sacrifice and

  reasons for

  resource differences and

  security problems today and

  “Toyota Horde, The” and

  See also Afghanistan war; Iraq war

  Convergent evolution

  Cooperation

  Allee studies and

  competition and

  examples in Allee’s studies

  global peace and

  higher primates and

  “intractable” conflicts and

  punishment and

  World War I example

  See also Symbiosis

  Cooperation origins

  competition leading to

  game theory studies

  kin selection

  past cooperative behavior and

  reciprocity and

  symbiogenesis

  twin studies

  Cooperative networks

  examples

  features of

  obligate symbiosis and

  success with

  Cosco Busan oil spill

  Crabs, blue

  Crabs, fiddler

  Crabs, hermit

  Crowdsourcing

  Crows

  human facial recognition

  learning abilities

  Cullins, Douglas

  Cuttlefish

  Cyberattacks

  Cybersecurity

  Cystic fibrosis

  D

  DARPA

  challenges

  “terrorism futures market,”

  Darwin, Charles

  Beagle voyage

  behavioral recognition

  evolution process

  finches

  learning/research method

  misinterpretation of his work

  On the Origin of Species

  Darwinian medicine

  Davis, Mike

  Dawkins, Richard

  Decentralized organization

  adaptable cascade and

  al-Qaeda and

  critical ingredients for

  environmental protection and

  individuals scaling up and

  infectious disease detection and

  information filter

  international bureaucracies vs.

  marines in Iraq example

  music file-sharing networks

  social justice and

  See also Challenges

  Decentralized organization in nature

  adaptability reasons

 

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