Podcast appearances and mentions of George R Price

Imagine a burning home, flames dancing out every window. A man walking by hears a scream for help from a young child coming from inside. Without much of a thought, he runs inside in an attempt to rescue the youngster. Why would he do that? Why – evolutionarily speaking – would anyone risk his or her life or save a stranger. One man thought he figured out why and he didn’t like what he discovered, so he gave up everything to prove himself wrong. Today I have the story of George Price on the 184th episode of Coffee of Jeff. Show notes and links: * George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (youtube.com) * TEDxTalpiot – Oren Harman – The Evolution of Altruism (youtube.com) * George Price: The altruistic man who died trying to prove selflessness doesn’t exist (independent.co.uk) * The Group: On George Price (thenation.com) * (PDF) The Birth of the First Evolutionary Stable Strategy | Oren Harman (academia.edu) * The Man Who Gave Himself Away (nautil.us) * (PDF) Helical Biography: The Case of Altruism and George Price | Oren Harman (academia.edu) * George R. Price – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) * Why Do Human Beings Do Good Things? The Puzzle of Altruism (psychologytoday.com)

Elias and Sean talk about capitalism, the necessity of trade, and placing a value on things and people. They also find the weird side of Amazon. Links and Show Notes Weird Stuff on Amazon Weird Stuff on Amazon (web archive at the time of recording) Bionic - Relay FM Do By Friday George R. Price - Wikipedia anti-capitalist love notes postcard by radicalemprints | Etsy Workflow: Powerful Automation Made Simple Apple Acquires Workflow – MacStories Úll 2017 Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

In last week’s episode, Demons in Suburbia, we looked at the tragic story of Michael Taylor and in the process touched on the notion of free-will. The degree to which any of us can be truly held accountable for our actions is a complex and controversial subject. For one man in particular, this idea became an obsession for which he would ultimately give his life. Featuring the life of maverick academic George R. Price Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

From "survival of the fittest" to "the selfish gene," familiar evolutionary themes advocate an amoral viewpoint that favors the individual. And yet, evolutionary biologists have uncovered countless examples of altruism in animals and humans — which has given rise to the idea that there is an evolutionary component to these selfless behaviors that can be quantified. This week on Skepticality, Swoopy talks with Professor Oren Harman, author of The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. Both a history of the study of social evolution and a biography of George R. Price, this book explores a life which would become an illuminating experiment in altruism and lead to the development of the Price equation (a mathematical equation used to study genetic evolution).