From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). When the manuscript crossed his desk, Joshua Plotkin, a theoretical biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, was immediately intrigued.

"We studied groups both small and large," says Joshua Plotkin, a professor in Penn's Department of Biology and senior author on the new paper, "and we find that the simple idea of conditioning ...

Using game-theory-driven models, they show that a capacity for empathy fosters cooperation, according to senior author Joshua Plotkin, an evolutionary biologist. The models also show that the ...

Joshua Plotkin’s dive into the evolution of language began with clarity—and also a lack of it. Today, if you wanted to talk about something that’s clear, you’d say that it has clarity.