What's new?
31 AUG 2025: Added a link to Planet Money Newsletter: How plants and fungi trade resources without a brain. Interview with Toby Kiers by Alex Mayyasi (published 26 AUG 25) to the page 'External 'Biological Market' links'
29 AUG 2025: changed the way in which I present a PowerPoint on the page the 'Forbidden Circle Game', which was published as: Fruteau, van Damme & Noë (2013). Vervet monkeys solve a multiplayer “Forbidden Circle Game” by queuing to learn restraint. Current Biology, 23(8), 665-670.
28 AUG 2025: opened a new page about my upcoming book 'Markets in Nature'
9 JUL 2025: Added Kawamura & Barclay (2025). Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable. Evolution and Human Behavior, 46(5), 106727 to the page human cooperation, fairness & reputation
This photo was taken in 2013 but I still look rather similar - no obvious improvements 😒
I returned to The Netherlands after my retirement in September 2018. The best way to contact me is by email:
ronald.noe (you-know-wh'at') gmail.com
Various pages with information on Biological Markets and my Publications (with links to PDFs) can be found by clicking the menu (upper-left)
Alternative source of PDFs: ResearchGate
Citation scores: Google Scholar
behavioural ecology, evolution of cooperation and mutualism, biological market theory
mostly African primates and a bit of rooks, kea and arbuscular mycorrhiza
Last update: 31 AUG 2025