Introduction
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Dr. Szabolcs Számadó is senior research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Communication, BUTE and at the CSS-RECENS „Lendület” Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Science, Hungary. He is a theoretical biologist who investigated the relation between the cost of signals and honesty with a range of tools including game theory and individual based modelling. His research has been published in top journals of the field (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Animal Behaviour) and he wrote a review on the topic (Animal Behaviour). He also investigated the conditions of cooperation in different systems; last but not least, he is interested in the early evolution of human language and he wrote several book chapters and a TREE review on this issue.
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Számadó CV
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Research topics
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Animal Communication, Honest Signalling, Game Theory, Cooperation, Reputation
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Selected publications
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Penn, DJ & Számadó, Sz (2020) The Handicap Principle: how an erroneous hypothesis became a scientific principle. Biological Reviews 95 (1), 267-290. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12563 |
Számadó, Sz., Czégel, D. & Zachar, I. (2019) One problem, too many solutions: How costly is honest signalling of need? PLOS one, 14(1): e0208443. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208443 |
Garay, J., Számadó, Sz., Varga, Z., & Szathmary, E. (2018). Caring for parents: an evolutionary rationale. BMC Biology, 16(1), 53. https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-018-0519-2 |
Zachar, I., Szilágyi, A., Számadó, Sz., & Szathmáry, E. (2018). Farming the mitochondrial ancestor as a model of endosymbiotic establishment by natural selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), E1504-E1510. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/7/E1504.short |
Számadó, Sz. (2011) The cost of honesty and the fallacy of the handicap principle. Anim.Behav. 81, 3-10. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347210003374 |
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Reviewer
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Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Biology Letters, Entropy, Evolution and Human Behaviour, Evolutionary Anthropology, Functional Ecology, Games, Journal of Theoretical Biology, PLoS one, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Royal Society Interface, Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B, Royal Society Open Science, Scientific Advances, Scientific Reports.
publons profile
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Employment
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2019 - |
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communication, Senior research fellow |
2015 - |
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Senior research fellow |
2007-2016 |
MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Senior research fellow |
2004-2007 |
ECAgents group, Collegium Budapest, Research fellow |
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Education
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1997- 2004 |
Eötvös Loránd University, Ph.D. in Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Reliable communication in animals, a game theoretical approach” (written in English) Supervisor: Prof. Eörs Szathmáry |
1991- 1996 |
Eötvös Loránd University, MSc in Biology. Diploma thesis: “Evolúció dinamikai vizsgálatok” (Studies in Evolutionary Dynamics, written in Hungarian) Supervisor: Prof. Eörs Szathmáry |
Teaching
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2019-present |
Interdisciplinary Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
2005-present |
Cultural Evolution, Eötvös Loránd University |
2000-present |
Animal Communication: a game theoretical approach, Eötvös L. University |
1999-present |
History of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University |
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Grants
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2019-2021 |
OTKA K 132250; 24463 thousands FT, principal investigator |
2016-2019 |
OTKA K 112929; 23000 thousands FT, principal investigator |
2014-2017 |
OTKA K 108974; 5900 thousands FT, principal investigator |
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