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Madeleine Beekman

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Professor of Behavioural Ecology and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney

To whom is she more closely related? Shutterstock

November 19, 2015

Do you share more genes with your mother or your father?

Madeleine Beekman, University of Sydney

How many times do people make the comment about which parent a child takes after. So what does genetics say?

Intuitive processes may underlie decisions of those who help others while risking their own lives. AAresTT/Shutterstock

October 16, 2014

‘Extreme altruists’ motivated by gut instinct: study

Penny Orbell, The Conversation

If you noticed a person in grave danger would you act first and think later in order to save them? New research suggests people who put their own lives in danger to help others make the decision to do…

Prior to Hamilton’s rule, biologists puzzled over how cooperative behaviours evolved. Christian Collins/Flickr

July 3, 2014

Origins of altruism: why Hamilton still rules 50 years on

Ben Oldroyd, University of Sydney; Madeleine Beekman, University of Sydney, and Rob Brooks, UNSW

Fifty years ago this month, evolutionary biologist William Donald Hamilton published a solution to one of biology’s most enduring mysteries: why does altruism exist? Altruistic behaviours are those where…

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