Zoltán Varga

Prof. Zoltán Varga


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Academic Career Length

38Years (1989-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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6 March 2008 in Periodica Mathematica Hungarica
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ZVZoltán Varga
Zoltán Varga

27 June 2012 in Journal of Theoretical Biology
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JGJózsef Garay
József Garay
ZVZoltán Varga
Zoltán Varga
Tomas Cabello-GarciaTomas Cabello-Garcia
Tomas Cabello-Garcia
MGManuel Gámez
Manuel Gámez

31 August 2014 in Journal of Pest Science
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JGJózsef Garay
József Garay
ZSZoltán Sebestyén
Zoltán Sebestyén
ZVZoltán Varga
Zoltán Varga
MGManuel Gámez
Manuel Gámez
ATAlejandro Torres
Alejandro Torres
Tomas Cabello-GarciaTomas Cabello-Garcia
Tomas Cabello-Garcia

19 July 2019 in BMC Ecology and Evolution
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JGJózsef Garay
József Garay
BGBarnabás M. Garay
Barnabás M. Garay
ZVZoltán Varga
Zoltán Varga
VCVillő Csiszár
Villő Csiszár
TMTamás F. Móri
Tamás F. Móri
For the understanding of human nature, the evolutionary roots of human moral behaviour are a key precondition. Our question is as follows: Can the altruistic moral rule “Risk your life to save your family members, if you want them to save your life” be evolutionary stable? There are three research approaches to investigate this problem: kin selection, group selection and population genetics modelling. The present study is strictly based on the last approach. We consider monogamous and exogamous families, where at an autosomal locus, dominant-recessive alleles determine the phenotypes in a sexual population. Since all individuals’ survival rate is determined by their altruistic family members, we introduce a new population genetics model based on the mating table approach and adapt the verbal definition of evolutionary stability to genotypes. In general, when the resident is recessive, a homozygote is an evolutionarily stable genotype (ESG), if the number of survivors of the resident genotype of the resident homozygote family is greater than that of non-resident heterozygote survivors of the family of the resident homozygote and mutant heterozygote genotypes. Using the introduced genotype dynamics we proved that in the recessive case ESG implies local stability of the altruistic genotype. We apply our general ESG conditions for self-sacrificing life history strategy when the number of new-born offspring does not depend on interactions within the family and the interactions are additive. We find that in this case our ESG conditions give back Hamilton’s rule for evolutionary stability of the self-sacrificing life history strategy. In spite of the fact that the kidney transplantations was not a selection factor during the earlier human evolution, nowadays “self-sacrificing” can be observed in the live donor kidney transplantations, when the donor is one of the family members. It seems that selection for self-sacrificing in family produced an innate moral tendency in modulating social cognition in human brain.

20 January 2012 in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
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MGManuel Gámez
Manuel Gámez
IGInmaculada López García
Inmaculada López García
ZVZoltán Varga
Zoltán Varga
JGJ. Garay
J. Garay

6 November 2009 in Acta Biotheoretica
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IGInmaculada López García
Inmaculada López García
MGManuel Gámez
Manuel Gámez
JGJ. Garay
J. Garay
TST. Standovár
T. Standovár
ZVZoltán Varga
Zoltán Varga