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Athena Aktipis's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of California, San Francisco
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Christina Athena Aktipis is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative and the co-director of the Human Generosity Project. She is also the director of the Cooperation and Conflict lab at Arizona State University, vice president of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer , and was the director of human and social evolution and co-founder of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at UCSF. She is a cooperation theorist, an evolutionary biologist, an evolutionary psychologist, and a cancer biologist who works at the intersection of those fields. Aktipis is the author of the book published on March 24, 2020, from Princeton University Press The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps us Understand and Treat Cancer. Athena hosts Zombified, a podcast created to communicate the science of zombification in daily life. Zombified is an extension of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting , a biannual conference chaired by Aktipis. ZAMM is an interdisciplinary conference where art, science and medicine come together with the aim of solving complex issues.

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Athena Aktipis's Published Works

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Pan-cancer analysis of the extent and consequences of intratumor heterogeneity (2015) (588)
Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms (2014) (302)
Cancer across the tree of life: cooperation and cheating in multicellularity (2015) (290)
The ecology of entrainment: Foundations of coordinated rhythmic movement. (2010) (281)
Know when to walk away: contingent movement and the evolution of cooperation. (2004) (278)
Classifying the evolutionary and ecological features of neoplasms (2017) (276)
Life history trade-offs in cancer evolution (2013) (180)
Evolutionary foundations for cancer biology (2013) (172)
The animal nature of spontaneous human laughter (2014) (169)
The animal nature of spontaneous human laughter (2014) (169)
Risk-Pooling and Herd Survival: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Gift-Giving System (2011) (109)
Overlooking Evolution: A Systematic Analysis of Cancer Relapse and Therapeutic Resistance Research (2011) (99)
Is cooperation viable in mobile organisms? Simple Walk Away rule favors the evolution of cooperation in groups. (2011) (97)
Fetal microchimerism and maternal health: A review and evolutionary analysis of cooperation and conflict beyond the womb (2015) (93)
The role of citizen science in addressing grand challenges in food and agriculture research (2018) (91)
Kombucha: a novel model system for cooperation and conflict in a complex multi-species microbial ecosystem (2019) (74)
A comparison of system dynamics and agent-based simulation applied to the study of cellular receptor dynamics (2004) (73)
An ecological measure of immune-cancer colocalization as a prognostic factor for breast cancer (2015) (73)
Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame (2018) (70)
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence (2018) (66)
Cooperation in an Uncertain World: For the Maasai of East Africa, Need-Based Transfers Outperform Account-Keeping in Volatile Environments (2016) (62)
Cancer susceptibility and reproductive trade-offs: a model of the evolution of cancer defences (2015) (49)
The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights (2020) (48)
Natural Selection in Cancer Biology: From Molecular Snowflakes to Trait Hallmarks. (2017) (47)
Lifetime cancer prevalence and life history traits in mammals (2020) (44)
Need-based transfers on a network: a model of risk-pooling in ecologically volatile environments (2015) (40)
Antibiotic and pesticide susceptibility and the Anthropocene operating space (2018) (39)
Dispersal Evolution in Neoplasms: The Role of Disregulated Metabolism in the Evolution of Cell Motility (2011) (38)
Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer (2021) (38)
Principles of cooperation across systems: from human sharing to multicellularity and cancer (2015) (37)
Managing Risk Through Cooperation: Need-Based Transfers and Risk Pooling Among the Societies of the Human Generosity Project (2019) (37)
Resource conflict and cooperation between human host and gut microbiota: implications for nutrition and health (2016) (37)
Recognition Memory and the Evolution of Cooperation: How Simple Strategies Succeed in an Agent-Based World (2006) (34)
Opinion: Control vs. eradication: Applying infectious disease treatment strategies to cancer (2015) (32)
Modern reproductive patterns associated with estrogen receptor positive but not negative breast cancer susceptibility (2014) (31)
Kin terms and fitness interdependence (2019) (24)
Social Feeding Behavior of Trichoplax adhaerens (2019) (23)
Inclusive fitness effects can select for cancer suppression into old age (2015) (22)
Carbon dating cancer: defining the chronology of metastatic progression in colorectal cancer (2017) (21)
The status of evolutionary medicine education in North American medical schools (2015) (21)
Elephant Genomes Reveal Accelerated Evolution in Mechanisms Underlying Disease Defenses (2021) (18)
IS HOMO ECONOMICUS (2005) (18)
Cancer initiation and progression within the cancer microenvironment (2018) (18)
Transient commensal clonal interactions can drive tumor metastasis (2020) (17)
Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats? (2020) (16)
The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer (2020) (15)
Feedback enhances greening during disaster recovery: A model of social and ecological processes in neighborhood scale investment (2018) (13)
Life History Trade-Offs in Tumors (2018) (12)
Cooperation and cheating as innovation: insights from cellular societies (2017) (11)
Parental investment without kin recognition: simple conditional rules for parent–offspring behavior (2011) (10)
Generosity among the Ik of Uganda (2020) (10)
Status does not predict stress: Women in an egalitarian hunter–gatherer society (2020) (9)
The Cheating Cell (2019) (9)
Design principles for risk-pooling systems (2021) (8)
When to walk away and when to stay: Cooperation evolves when agents can leave uncooperative partners and groups (2008) (8)
The Darwinian Dynamics of Motility and Metastasis (2016) (7)
Resistance Is Mobile: The Accelerating Evolution of Mobile Genetic Elements Encoding Resistance (2014) (7)
Energy oversupply to tissues: a single mechanism possibly underlying multiple cancer risk factors. (2019) (6)
Do Smartphones Create a Coordination Problem for Face‐to‐Face Interaction? Leveraging Game Theory to Understand and Solve the Smartphone Dilemma (2020) (6)
Sacredness as an implied threat of supernatural punishment: the case of need-based transfers (2017) (6)
“A Solidarity-Type World”: Need-Based Helping among Ranchers in the Southwestern United States (2021) (6)
Need-based transfer systems are more vulnerable to cheating when resources are hidden (2019) (6)
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting cooperation? (2020) (5)
Diet, Microbes, and Cancer Across the Tree of Life: a Systematic Review (2021) (5)
An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans (2021) (4)
Fitness interdependence as indexed by shared fate: Factor structure and validity of a new measure. (2022) (4)
Correlated disasters and need-based transfers: The limits of risk pooling systems in simulated ecologies (2017) (4)
Younger people and people with higher subjective SES experienced more negative effects of the pandemic on their friendships (2021) (4)
Sex (Similarities and) Differences in Friendship Jealousy (2020) (4)
Need-Based Transfers Enhance Resilience to Shocks: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Risk-Pooling System (2021) (4)
Social status does not predict in-camp integration among egalitarian hunter-gatherer men (2021) (4)
Upregulation of DNA repair genes and cell extrusion underpin the remarkable radiation resistance of Trichoplax adhaerens (2021) (4)
Why We Cooperate by Michael Tomasello, with Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms and Elizabeth Spelke (2010) (4)
Life history theory and breast cancer risk: methodological and theoretical challenges (2016) (4)
Ik of Uganda cooperate in dictator games especially when need, supernatural punishment invoked (2020) (4)
Choosing Carbon Mitigation Strategies Using Ethical Deliberation (2010) (3)
The future of evolutionary medicine: sparking innovation in biomedicine and public health (2023) (3)
Positive assortment for peer review (2010) (3)
Kombucha as a model system for multispecies microbial cooperation: theoretical promise, methodological challenges and new solutions ‘in solution’ (2017) (3)
Common knowledge promotes risk pooling in an experimental economic game (2019) (3)
Mask wearing behavior across routine and leisure activities during COVID-19 (2021) (3)
Mismatches with Our Ancestral Environments and Cancer Risk (2016) (3)
Elephant Genomes Reveal Insights into Differences in Disease Defense Mechanisms between Species (2020) (2)
Can some microbes promote host stress and benefit evolutionarily from this strategy? (2020) (2)
Mother-in-Law Daughter-in-Law Conflict: an Evolutionary Perspective and Report of Empirical Data from the USA (2022) (2)
5. Cancer across the Tree of Life (2019) (2)
Associations Between Change Over Time in Pandemic-Related Stress and Change in Physical Activity. (2021) (2)
The Origins of Risk Sharing: An Experimental Approach (2013) (2)
Fitness interdependence as indexed by shared fate: Factor structure and validity of a new measure (2020) (2)
What predicts attitudes about mask wearing? (2021) (2)
Abstract 2387: Pan-cancer analysis of clonal evolution reveals the costs and adaptive benefits of genomic instability (2016) (1)
The Origins of Collective Overvaluation: Irrational exuberance emerges from simple, honest and rational individual behavior (2010) (1)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: A Garden Shows That Cancer Is a Part of Life (2020) (1)
Abstract LB-163: Pan-cancer analysis of the causes and consequences of Intra-tumor heterogeneity (2015) (1)
The ecology of cancer prevalence across species: Cancer prevalence is highest in desert species and high trophic levels (2022) (1)
Relationship between proximity and physiological stress levels in hunter-gatherers: The Hadza (2022) (1)
Elephant Genomes Elucidate Disease Defenses and Other Traits (2020) (1)
The Effect of Behavioral Assortment on Selection Dynamics : Externalities , Information Processing and Subjective Commitment (2002) (1)
Generosity among the Ik of Uganda – Corrigendum (2021) (1)
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence (2018) (0)
2. Why Does Cancer Evolve? (2019) (0)
Social and ecological feedback in greening behavior (Version 1) (2015) (0)
Positive Interdependence Attenuates the Empathy-Altruism Relationship (2020) (0)
Mother-in-law daughter-in-law conflict: An evolutionary perspective, ethnographic review, and report of empirical data from the United States (2020) (0)
7. How to Control Cancer (2019) (0)
The changing landscape of friendship in the pandemic: Younger people and people with higher subjective socioeconomic status experience more negative effects of the pandemic on their friendships (2021) (0)
Identities as predictors of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2022) (0)
A factor analytic examination of women's and men's friendship preferences (2023) (0)
Mask wearing is associated with COVID-19 Prevalence, Risk, Stress, and Future Orientation (2020) (0)
Review of Why We Cooperate (2010) (0)
3. Cheating in Multicellular Cooperation (2019) (0)
Unpredictable Needs are Associated with Lower Expectations of Repayment (2023) (0)
Mother-in-Law Daughter-in-Law Conflict: an Evolutionary Perspective and Report of Empirical Data from the USA (2022) (0)
Life history and cancer in birds: clutch size predicts cancer (2023) (0)
Does placental invasiveness lead to higher rates of malignant transformation in mammals? (2020) (0)
4. Cancer from Womb to Tomb (2019) (0)
Cancer initiation and progression within the cancer microenvironment (2018) (0)
A Missing Hallmark of Cancer: Dysregulation of Differentiation (2022) (0)
Need-Based Transfers Enhance Resilience to Shocks: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Risk-Pooling System (2021) (0)
6. The Hidden World of Cancer Cells (2019) (0)
Early life adversity, reproductive history and breast cancer risk (2022) (0)
Walk Away in groups (Version 1) (2016) (0)
Agreeableness and neuroticism predict being more concerned about COVID-19 and bothered by friends’ risky behavior (2021) (0)
Cooperation in an Uncertain World: For the Maasai of East Africa, Need-Based Transfers Outperform Account-Keeping in Volatile Environments (2016) (0)
Acknowledgment to reviewers—2017 (2017) (0)
Cancer Prevalence Across Vertebrates (2023) (0)
Do rules of friendship tell us what kinds of traits we value in friends? (2021) (0)
Abstract B2: Conceptual barriers in cancer prevention research (2010) (0)
Status does not predict stress among Hadza hunter-gatherer men (2023) (0)
Identity fusion and fitness interdependence (2018) (0)
The Microbial Organ is Unlike any Other – Evidence for Conflict in Human-Microbiome Co-Evolution (2017) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2017 (2017) (0)
Abstract P1-05-30: Genomic and microenvironmental intra-tumor heterogeneity in DCIS (2017) (0)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: A Garden Shows That Cancer Is a Part of Life (2021) (0)
The simplicity of cooperation: Conditional movement rules promote cooperation (2009) (0)
Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined (2023) (0)
Virtual Cattle and Actual Friends (2019) (0)
Abstract P2-05-05: Not presented (2018) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Cooperation (2006) (0)
ASSORTMENT IN SPACE AND TIME ASSORTMENT IN SPACE AND TIME: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION AND MOVEMENT Short title: Assortment in Space and Time (2008) (0)
The status of evolutionary medicine education in North American medical schools (2015) (0)
Sponges are highly resistant to radiation exposure and cancer (2021) (0)
1. Introduction: Evolution in the Flesh (2019) (0)
An ecological measure of immune-cancer colocalization as a prognostic factor for breast cancer (2015) (0)

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