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by Steven Gussman  Four complementary bases for altruism have been proposed in the biological sciences: kin selection ( nepotism ), 1   reciprocal altruism ( friendship through trade ), 2  sexual signaling (altruism that is attractive to onlooking prospective mates), 3  and manipulation (one individual coercing resources from another). 4 Reciprocal altruism is a selection pressure which entails that a reciprocally altruistic trait (where the altruist and recipient ‘take turns’ in each role) can evolve as long as it leaves both parties better off than if they had not undergone the trade (meaning that for reciprocity to evolve, free riders need to be excluded ). 5 The governing inequality can be seen in figure 1: 6     (1/p²)(Σb altruist, k – Σc altruist, j ) > (1/q²)Σb cheater, m That is that summing over repeated encounters, and taking into account the frequency of the altruistic allele p, and the frequency of the cheater allele q, the diff...

 by Steven Gussman THE HYPOTHESIS 1           Why do warm things smell more-so than cold things? The obvious answer is that temperature is just the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance: colder things are stiller, and the constituents of hotter things are more-so in motion. This motion should then kick off molecules into the environment where they may be received by noses: smelled. Yet this explanation is purely physical, what if there is another cause, shaped by evolution by natural selection? Perhaps the effect is also by virtue of the fact that by being warm, the scent preferentially travels towards cool noses.           The passive smell hypothesis is that in animals for which smelling is an important sense (for sensing one's inert environment, and for communication via pheromones), the nose is elongated away from the warm body; made of cartilage; moist or runny (especially in colder weathe...

  (856) 673-6580 sgussmanbusiness@gmail.com Shavertown, PA https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-gussman-b05418199/ Steven Gussman Qualifications ∙ Full-stack software engineer capable of creating interactive 3D software (such as video games and  simulations), front-to-back (programming, design, and art), in a variety of environments. Advanced proficient in writing prose. Skills Languages: C# (.NET), C, C++, Python, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, JSON, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, socket- paradigm netcode Frameworks: Unity, Unreal Engine, Xamarin, Git(Hub), Subversion (SVN) Platforms: Windows, Universal Windows Platform (including Xbox One), Android, Android Wear OS,  iPhoneWe...

by Steven Gussman            In " The Cosmic Filament Structure As Seeded By Inflated Primordial Gravitational Wave Interference", I put forward the hypothesis that an interference pattern in microscopic gravitational waves in the early universe were inflated (including, crucially, in their amplitude) to seed the large-scale filament structure of the universe. 1   Soon after publication, I realized a fatal theoretical flaw in this hypothesis: the reason that it is typically thought that an expanding space-time flattens out is because the amplitude has an associated energy: my hypothesis would seem to break the first law of thermodynamics, that no matter-energy may be created nor destroyed.          After publishing my paper, I read The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture Of The Universe by J. Richard Gott, and published a small review of the work on my Instagram account: 2 View this post on Instagram A post...

  About The Author                     Photograph designed by Steven Gussman and                     shot by Christine Abacan-Pinho on                     Canon EOS Rebel t5i (2017).                     Arts installation: “The Gateway” by Clyde Lynds                     (“tempered glass and stainless steel”) (2007) at                     fourth and Cooper, Rutgers University Camden campus. I           Steven Gussman is a scientist and video game developer living in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He graduated cum laude from the Honors College at Rutgers University Camden with a Bachelor's Of Th...