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Date: March 27 (Monday), 2006
Location: Graduate School of Letters at Hokkaido University
Speaker:
  Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute, USA; University of Siena, Italy)
Participants:
  Toshio Yamagishi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  Tatsuya Kameda (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  Masaki Yuki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  Nobuyuki Takahashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  Kazumi Shimizu (Waseda University, Japan)
  Others (about 15 participants)

For our 15th international workshop, we invited Dr. Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute; University of Siena) to give a talk on the relationships among parochialism, altruism, and multi-level selection. Following the talk, participants discussed with Dr. Bowles his forthcoming book "A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution" in collaboration with Dr. Herbert Gintis (Santa Fe Institute). Enthusiastic discussion lasted for about three hours.




     Professor Samuel Bowles


    Professor Toshio Yamagishi

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