Athena Aktipis on Cooperation
"Each of us is a massive collection of cells that cooperate in mind-blowing ways."
Athena Aktipis is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at ASU and co-director of the Human Generosity Project, the first large-scale transdisciplinary project to investigate the interrelationship between biological and cultural influences on human generosity. Professor Aktipis also works on cooperation and conflict in biological systems including cancer evolution and the human microbiome.
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