Category Archives: Economic sciences

Economic cost of fisheries-induced evolution suggests using different nets

Posted on July 16, 2013 by pnas

For over seventy years, fishery managers have gathered data about the Northeast Arctic Atlantic cod in order to better manage this economically important resource. As previous research has shown, fishing induces evolutionary changes, whether selecting for a particular trait or … Continue reading →

How observing others’ behavior can increase cooperation

Posted on June 11, 2013 by pnas

The question of how to get people to work together has bedeviled society for millennia. Now a large-scale field experiment testing how to get more than 2,400 participants to prevent blackouts in the real world is supporting theoretical work on … Continue reading →

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