For both designed and natural systems, conditions that affect stability and factors that control rates of change are critical elements to consider and understand.
This model lets us explore how the appearance of certain social behaviors can affect evolutionary population dynamics.
NetLogo: Evolution of resource use and social behavior (monitoring and punishment) Read More »
Our interdisciplinary teacher’s guide outlines our educational design concept. It provides introductory readings around core concepts of human sciences and ideas for exploring them in the classroom.
A Teacher’s Guide to Evolution, Behavior, and Sustainability Science Read More »
Tinbergen’s Questions can help organize complex causality of behaviors and other phenomena across time.
Tinbergen’s Questions Read More »
What can we learn from computer models about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Computer models allow us to observe and investigate the influence of environmental conditions and behaviors on the evolutionary development of social-ecological systems.
Students compare the stories of three Mexican fishing villages to understand the factors that enabled some villages to sustainably manage their fishing resources, while others failed.
Three Mexican fisheries Read More »
An interactive introduction into concepts of ecology, behavioral ecology, and sustainability with a computer simulation of a simple social-ecological system.
NetLogo: Two Foresters Read More »
OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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