“Cooperation is about preparation:” Preliminary results from the HGP’s Mongolia field site By Thomas Conte The Human Generosity Project July 17, 2015 Mongolia’s 21st century nomadic herders are merging a centuries-old economic tradition with post-2000 tech savvy. Roughly 30% of Mongolia’s population of 2.84 million make their living by migrating each season with herds of […]
Author: Tom Fikes
Just FYI: This is what an additional blog post would look like
How our blog works Tom Fikes Here is an additional post in the “blog” category. I’ve set up a “blog” category to be separate from the “news” category — both are posts, but we can separate them easily to show list of only one or the other. I can also add subcategories (e.g., Malpai, Ik, etc) […]
Malpai borderlands site added to the HGP
In October of 2014, Lee Cronk and Athena Aktipis (co-Directors of the HGP) visited the Malpai borderlands region of southern Arizona and New Mexico to explore its suitability for the HGP. They were received warmly by local ranchers and other members of the community and learned a great deal in a short time about both […]
HGP launches
The Human Generosity Project launched in August of 2014, with the goals of enhancing our understanding of why humans share with each other in times of need. Through fieldwork at seven sites around the world, laboratory experiments with human subjects and computational modeling, the HGP leverages disciplinary expertise from many fields to better understand human […]