Complexity, thermodynamics and evolution of social behavior

 

161- On the dynamics of grouping. Proceeding of MSO 2005, IASTED

 

159- Science, religion and economic development. Interciencia 30: 370-373, 2005  K.Jaffe

 

156- From Sociodynamics to Synergistics: Understanding the Wealth of Nations using Simulations. Proceedings of ESSA 2004, Valladolid, Spain 2004. Jaffe K.

 

155- Altruistic punishment or decentralized social investment? Acta Biotheoretica 52: 155-172, 2004, Jaffe K.

 

154- Complexity in the Oil Markets. Interciencia 29: 320-324, 2004, Levy S., Sabellis H. and Jaffe K

 

152- Decision making systems in recruitment to food for two Nasutermitinae. Sociobiology, 44: 139-151, 2004, Andara C, Issa S & Jaffe K. 

 

151- Simulation of Coevolution in Batesian Mimicry. Naturalia (in press), Jaffe K & Osborn F

 

141- An economic analysis of altruism: Who benefits from altruistic acts? Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations 5: 3, 2002, Jaffe K* http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/3/3.html

 

139- Expanded food choice as a possible factor in the evolution of eusociality in Vespidae Sociobiology 39(1):25-36, 2002, Silva E.R. & Jaffe K.

 

134- On the relative importance of Haplo-Diploidy, Assortative Mating and Social Synergy on the Evolutionary Emergence of Social Behavior. Acta Biotheoretica 49: 29-42, 2001, Jaffe K..

 124- MURADIAN R, ISSA S and JAFFE K, Energy consumption of termite colonies of Nasutitermes ephratae. Physiol. Behav. 66: 731-735, 1999

116- CABRERA S and JAFFE K On the energetic cost of human societies: energy consumption as an econometric index. Interciencia 23: 350-354, 1998

111- OSBORN F and JAFFE K: Cooperation vs. exploitation: interactions between Lycaenid (Lepidopera : Lycaenidae) larvae and ants. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 34: 69-82,1997

 97- FONK C and JAFFE K: On the energetic cost of sociality. Phys. Behav. 59: 713-719, 1996.

 91- JAFFE K, CHACON G. Co-evolution of complexity of nervous systems, group size and communication systems: a general feature in biology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18: 386, 1995

83- JAFFE K and FONCK C. Energetics of social phenomena: Physics applied to evolutionary biology. Il Nuovo Cimiento D. 16(6): 543-553, 1994

78- BAGES, N., CANINO, E., JAFFE, K., IRRIBAREN, C and DIAS, G.: Oxygen consumption and cognitive processes. Acta Cient. Venezolana 44: 184-191, 1993

75- JAFFE K and HEBLIN-BERALDO M.J. Oxygen consumption and the evolution of order: Negentropy criteria applied to the evolution of ants. Experientia 49, 587-592, 1993

52- JAFFE K, Analisis sociobiologico del comportamiento reproductivo de poblaciones humanas. Atlantida 27, 42-45, 1990

41- JAFFE, K. and PEREZ, E. : A comparative study of brain morphology in ants. Brain Behav. Evol., 33, 25-33, 1989

34-JAFFE K.: Learning abilities of ants and complexity of social systems. In: Chemistry and Biology of Social Insects; Eder J and Rembold H Eds., Verlag J. Peperny, Munchen, pp 134-135, 1987.

32-JAFFE K, Evolution of territorial behaviour and nest-mate recognition systems in ants. Experientia suppl. Vol. 54. Behaviour in Social Insects, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, p. 295-311, 1987

29-JAFFE K.: Evolución del comportamiento agonistico y de territorialidad en hormigas. Anais do VII Encontro de Myrmecologia do Estado de Sao Paulo. F.H. Caetano Ed. Rio Claro, UNESP, p. 1-23, 1986.

20-JAFFE K: Evolución de los sistemas de comunicación química en hormigas. Folia Entomologica Mexicana, 61: 189-203, 1984.

14-JAFFE K: Negentropy and the evolution of chemical recruitment in ants. Journal of theoretical Biology, 106, 587-604, 1984

11-JAFFE K: La evolución del comportamiento social en hormigas. Atlantida (USB, Caracas), 22, 29-31, 1983

Independent positive critique in:

C. ANDERSON* and D. W. McSHEA. Individual versus social complexity, with particular reference to ant colonies. Biol. Rev. 76, pp. 211-237, 2001.