Cooperating Researchers - Bernhard Völkl

POSITION AT CILS

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Theoretical Biology: evolution of sociality

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Institute of Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Elected Fellow, Royal Geographic Society, London
  • Member, Société Mathématique de France, Paris
  • Member, Higher Education Research Group of the RGS
  • Member, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)

 

Project: Game Theory

 

Over time game theory lost touch with reality, undermining its scientific relevance. The project aims to explore why game theory has created these illusions and how its concepts can be revised in order to achieve a closer match with reality.

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Voelkl, B. (2010): The ‘Hawk-Dove’ game and the speed of the evolutionary process in small heterogeneous populations. Games 1(2), 103-116.
  • Voelkl, B. & Noë, R (2010): The propagation of social information in primate groups: Longevity, fecundity, fidelity. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64, 1449-1459.
  • Kasper, C. & Voelkl, B. (2009): A social network analysis of primate groups. Primates, 50, 343-356.
  • Huber, L., Range, F., Voelkl, B., Szucsich, A., Virányi, Z. &Miklosi, A. (2009): The evolution of imitation: What do the capacities of non-human animals tell us about the mechanisms of imitation? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, B., 364, 2299-2309.
  • Fruteau, C., Voelkl, B., van Damme, E. & Noë, R. (2009): The law of supply and demand determines the social value of vervet monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA, 106, 12007-12012.
  • Voelkl, B. & Kasper, K. (2009): Social structure of primate interaction networks facilitates the emergence of cooperation. Biology Letters, 5, 462-464.
  • Voelkl, B. (2009): Ken Binmore: Does game theory work? The bargaining challenge. Journal of Bioeconomics, 11, 305-307.
  • Voelkl, B. & Noë, R (2008): The Influence of Social Structure on the Propagation of Social Information in Artificial Primate Groups: A Graph-based Simulation Approach. Journal of Theoretical Biology 252, 77-86.
  • Kasper, C., Voelkl, B. & Huber, L. (2008): Tolerated mouth-to-mouth food transfers in common marmosets. Primates 49 (2), 153-156.
  • Voelkl, B. & L. Huber (2007): Imitation as faithful copying of a novel technique in marmoset monkeys. PLoS one 2 (7), e611.