As part of an “epistemology” named for this process, Northwestern psychologist Donald T. Campbell conducted studies of false knowledge. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson’s work on the cultural form of this process emphasizes the existence of “oblique” and “horizontal” transmission. The choice between conciliation and conflict is highlighted in a model from a field named for this process, the “hawk–dove.” A strategy that is impermeable in a population is said to be “stable” with respect to this process. John Maynard Smith is largely credited with founding a discipline of game theory named for this process based on the theories of geneticist George Price. For 10 points, what process was first applied to human societies by Herbert Spencer, who coined the phrase “survival of the fittest?” ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 61.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 123.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 96.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 97.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 118.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 125.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.20 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.88 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 43 | -5 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UBC | 57 | -5 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | ASU | Texas B | 59 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 61 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 61 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 61 | -5 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 61 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 64 | -5 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | WashU B | 64 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Brandeis B | 72 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Warwick B | 73 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Illinois C | 74 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Missoui S&T | 74 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | BU | 75 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | George Washington B | 77 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Cambridge D | 77 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | George Washington A | 77 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Rutgers A | 79 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn B | 90 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Columbia C | 94 | 10 |
| Sachin Poobalasingham | Wake Forest | South Carolina | 95 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | John Jay College | 100 | 10 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Missouri | 102 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago C | 105 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Indiana B | 107 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Imperial B | 112 | 10 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke | UNC D | 115 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU B | Chicago D | 116 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | Harvard B | 116 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | UW B | Alberta | 116 | 10 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Haverford A | 118 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC | UW A | 120 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Brandeis A | 123 | -5 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Bristol | 124 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty B | 124 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 124 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 124 | 0 |
| Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Haverford B | 124 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | UMass Boston | 125 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | ASU | 125 | 10 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | Texas A | 125 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Oxford C | 125 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 125 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC B | UNC C | 125 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 125 | 0 |