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Emmanuel College: Boston, MA, US

2019-09-01 to present | Associate Professor (Department of Mathematics)
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Benjamin Allen

Emmanuel College: Boston, MA, US

2012-09-01 to 2019-08-31 | Assistant Professor (Department of Mathematics)
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Benjamin Allen

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

2014-09-01 to 2015-08-31 | Visiting Scholar (Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications)
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Benjamin Allen

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

2010-01-09 to 2012-08-31 | Research Associate (Program for Evolutionary Dynamics)
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Benjamin Allen

Education and qualifications (1)

Boston University: Boston, MA, US

2005-01-09 to 2010-05-10 | PhD (Department of Mathematics and Statistics)
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Funding (2)

Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose

2021-09 to 2024-08 | Grant
John Templeton Foundation (West Conshohocken, PA, US)
URL: https://www.templeton.org/grant/agency-directionality-and-function-foundations-for-a-science-of-purpose
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62220
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Benjamin Allen

RUI: The Rate of Evolution in Structured Populations

2017-08-01 to 2020-07-31 | Grant
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000086/1715315/RUI-The-Rate-of-Evolution-in-Structured-Populations
GRANT_NUMBER: grant.1715315
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Works (47)

The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure

Theoretical Population Biology
2024-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2024.06.004
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Alex McAvoy
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Nonlinear social evolution and the emergence of collective action

PNAS Nexus
2024-03-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae131
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Abdur-Rahman Khwaja; James L Donahue; Theodore J Kelly; Sasha R Hyacinthe; Jacob Proulx; Cassidy Lattanzio; Yulia A Dementieva; Christine Sample; David Rand
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Symmetry in models of natural selection

Journal of The Royal Society Interface
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0306
Contributors: Benjamin Allen
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Flipping the intuition for games on dynamic networks

Nature Computational Science
2023-09-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s43588-023-00513-3
Contributors: Benjamin Allen
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How asymmetric mating patterns affect the rate of neutral genetic substitution

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2023-03-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1017369
Part of ISSN: 2296-701X
Contributors: Emma Belanger; Aisha Seard; Aysha Hoang; Amanda Tran; Lorhena Guimaraes Antonio; Yulia A. Dementieva; Christine Sample; Benjamin Allen
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Evolution of cooperation with asymmetric social interactions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-01-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113468118
Contributors: Qi Su; Benjamin Allen; Joshua B. Plotkin
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Fixation probabilities in evolutionary dynamics under weak selection

Journal of Mathematical Biology
2021-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-021-01568-4
Contributors: Alex McAvoy; Benjamin Allen
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Fixation probabilities in graph-structured populations under weak selection

PLOS Computational Biology
2021-02-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008695
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Arne Traulsen; Christine Sample; Patricia Steinhagen; Julia Shapiro; Matthew King; Timothy Hedspeth; Megan Goncalves
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Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies

Nature Human Behaviour
2020-05-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-0881-2
Contributors: Alex McAvoy; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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Transient amplifiers of selection and reducers of fixation for death-Birth updating on graphs

PLOS Computational Biology
2020-01-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007529
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Arne Traulsen; Christine Sample; Robert Jencks; James Withers; Patricia Steinhagen; Lori Brizuela; Joshua Kolodny; Darren Parke; Gabor Lippner et al.
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Evolutionary games on isothermal graphs

Nature Communications
2019-11-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13006-7
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Gabor Lippner; Martin A. Nowak
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Evolution of cooperation on large networks with community structure

Journal of The Royal Society Interface
2019-03-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0677
Contributors: Babak Fotouhi; Naghmeh Momeni; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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A mathematical formalism for natural selection with arbitrary spatial and genetic structure

Journal of Mathematical Biology
2019-03-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-018-1305-z
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Alex McAvoy
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Stationary frequencies and mixing times for neutral drift processes with spatial structure

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2018-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2018.0238
Contributors: Alex McAvoy; Ben Adlam; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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Conjoining uncooperative societies facilitates evolution of cooperation

Nature Human Behaviour
2018-07-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0368-6
Contributors: Babak Fotouhi; Naghmeh Momeni; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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Multiscale Information Theory and the Marginal Utility of Information

Entropy
2017-06-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/e19060273
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Blake Stacey; Yaneer Bar-Yam
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The general form of Hamilton’s rule makes no predictions and cannot be tested empirically

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701805114
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Contributors: Martin A. Nowak; Alex McAvoy; Benjamin Allen; Edward O. Wilson
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Evolutionary dynamics on any population structure

Nature
2017-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nature21723
Part of ISSN: 0028-0836
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Gabor Lippner; Yu-Ting Chen; Babak Fotouhi; Naghmeh Momeni; Shing-Tung Yau; Martin A. Nowak
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Limited heterogeneity of known driver gene mutations among the metastases of individual patients with pancreatic cancer

Nature Genetics
2017-03-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3764
Contributors: Alvin P Makohon-Moore; Ming Zhang; Johannes G Reiter; Ivana Bozic; Benjamin Allen; Deepanjan Kundu; Krishnendu Chatterjee; Fay Wong; Yuchen Jiao; Zachary A Kohutek et al.
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There is no inclusive fitness at the level of the individual

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
2016-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.10.002
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Martin A Nowak
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Multiscale Information Theory for Complex Systems: Theory and Applications

Information and Complexity
2016-11 | Other
DOI: 10.1142/9789813109032_0007
Part of ISBN: 9789813109025
Contributors: Blake C. Stacey; Benjamin Allen; Yaneer Bar-Yam
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Evolution of worker policing

Journal of Theoretical Biology
2016-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.03.001
Contributors: Jason W. Olejarz; Benjamin Allen; Carl Veller; Raghavendra Gadagkar; Martin A. Nowak
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Four classes of interactions for evolutionary games

Physical Review E
2015-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.022820
Part of ISSN: 1539-3755
Contributors: György Szabó; Kinga S. Bodó; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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Games among relatives revisited

Journal of Theoretical Biology
2015-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.04.031
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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Payoff components and their effects in a spatial three-strategy evolutionary social dilemma

Physical Review E
2015-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.012813
Part of ISSN: 1539-3755
Contributors: Jeromos Vukov; Levente Varga; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak; György Szabó
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The Molecular Clock of Neutral Evolution Can Be Accelerated or Slowed by Asymmetric Spatial Structure

PLOS Computational Biology
2015-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004108
Part of ISSN: 1553-7358
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Christine Sample; Yulia Dementieva; Ruben C. Medeiros; Christopher Paoletti; Martin A. Nowak; Carl T. Bergstrom
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Games on graphs

EMS Surv. Math. Sci.
2014 | Journal article
DOI:

10.4171/emss/3

Part of ISSN:

2308-2151
Contributors: Benjamin Allen; Martin Nowak
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Fourier decomposition of payoff matrix for symmetric three-strategy games

Physical Review E
2014-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.042811
Part of ISSN: 1539-3755
Contributors: György Szabó; Kinga S. Bodó; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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Optional games on cycles and complete graphs

Journal of Theoretical Biology
2014-09 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.04.025

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0022-5193
Contributors: Hyeong-Chai Jeong; Seung-Yoon Oh; Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak
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Frequency-Dependent Selection Can Lead to Evolution of High Mutation Rates

The American Naturalist
2014-05 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1086/675505

Part of ISSN:

0003-0147
Contributors: Daniel I. S. Rosenbloom; Benjamin Allen
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A Population-Based Experimental Model for Protein Evolution: Effects of Mutation Rate and Selection Stringency on Evolutionary Outcomes

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1021/bi3016185

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0006-2960
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Adaptive Dynamics with Interaction Structure

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1086/670192

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0003-0147
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Cooperation and the Fate of Microbial Societies

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1371/journal.pbio.1001549

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1545-7885
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Evolutionary dynamics of cancer in response to targeted combination therapy

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.7554/elife.00747

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2050-084X
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Experimental interrogation of the path dependence and stochasticity of protein evolution using phage-assisted continuous evolution

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1073/pnas.1220670110

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0027-8424
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Limitations of inclusive fitness

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1073/pnas.1317588110

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0027-8424
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O Brave New World with Such Games

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1126/science.1241750

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0036-8075
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Spatial dilemmas of diffusible public goods

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.7554/elife.01169

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2050-084X
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The COMBREX Project: Design, Methodology, and Initial Results

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1371/journal.pbio.1001638

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1545-7885
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The effect of one additional driver mutation on tumor progression

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/eva.12020

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1752-4571
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Dynamics of targeted cancer therapy

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.molmed.2012.04.006

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1471-4914
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Evolutionary shift dynamics on a cycle

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.07.006

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0022-5193
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How mutation affects evolutionary games on graphs

2012 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.03.034

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0022-5193
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Measures of success in a class of evolutionary models with fixed population size and structure

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s00285-012-0622-x

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0303-6812
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Mutation Rate Evolution in Replicator Dynamics

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s11538-012-9771-8

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0092-8240
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The molecular evolution of acquired resistance to targeted EGFR blockade in colorectal cancers

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1038/nature11219

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0028-0836
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A New Phylogenetic Diversity Measure Generalizing the Shannon Index and Its Application to Phyllostomid Bats

2009 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1086/600101

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0003-0147
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Peer review (13 reviews for 6 publications/grants)

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