EvolutionPedro Márquez-ZacaríasAugust 27, 2020

Interview with Sarah Brosnan

EvolutionPedro Márquez-ZacaríasAugust 27, 2020

We spoke with Prof. Sarah Brosnan about the problem of cooperation, and why it has been a conundrum for biology since the times of Charles Darwin.

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Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

I am a PhD candidate in Quantitative Biosciences at Georgia Tech, studying evolutionary transitions and the evolution of multicellularity with Prof. William Ratcliff. I created Biomusings as an attempt to better understand biology myself. I tweet here.

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