Reeve, Hudson Kern
Professor
I am interested in studying the evolution of the balance in cooperation and conflict within animal societies and groups of interacting plants. My goal is to elucidate, through both mathematical theory and quantitative test, the general principles governing cooperation and conflict among animals, among plants, among cells within an organism, and among genes within a genome. Such principles will point the way to effective strategies of conflict minimization within societies.
research
research and scholarship focus
My research is devoted to developing theoretical models of conflict resolution and testing the predictions empirically with systems such as social wasps and soybeans.
co investigator of
- TEACHING MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN THE BEHAVORIAL SCIENCES | Research Grant
research areas
- agricultural engineering | collaborative research area (CALS)
- cognitive studies | collaborative research area (CALS)
- communication | collaborative research area (CALS)
- computational biology | research concentration area (Engineering)
- ecology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- entomology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- evolution | collaborative research area (CALS)
- insects | collaborative research area (CALS)
- mathematics | collaborative research area (CALS)
- neuroscience | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant biology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- psychology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- zoology | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- The evolution of cooperation and conflict | 2007 Impact statement
- Models of cooperation and conflict in groups of animals or plants | 2006 Impact statement
- Models of cooperation and conflict in groups of animals or plants | 2005 Impact statement
affiliations
head of
- Neurobiology and Behavior | graduate field
faculty appointment in
- Neurobiology and Behavior (BIO NB) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Cognitive Science | minor graduate field
- Neurobiology and Behavior | graduate field
teaching
teaching focus
I teach both Animal Behavior and an advanced course in modeling behavioral evolution, as a reflection of the empirical and theoretical aspects of my work, respectively.
teaches
- BIOG 2990 - Introduction to Research Methods in Biology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BIOG 4990 - Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BIONB 4220 - Modeling Behavioral Evolution (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- BIOG 2990 - Introduction to Research Methods in Biology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BIONB 7201 - Research Design in the Study of Animal Social Behavior (T 12:20:PM-02:00:PM) | spring 2009 class
service
outreach focus
My future outreach is likely to be strongly agricultural, but right now my outreach efforts are devoted to defending a Darwinian approach to all of biology (see Darwin Day activities-- also I have been active in publicly debating proponents of intelligent design.
event host
background
featured in
- Conference on cooperation, cheating, group decision-making yields insights | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Evolution given a closer look at second Darwin Day celebration | Cornell Chronicle Feature
publications
linked articles
- A missing model in reproductive skew theory: The bordered tug-of-war | journal article
Keywords: animal and plant behavior, evolution, evolution of communication, evolution of insect societies, evolution of mate choice, plant competition, plant competitive strategies