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A clever game player can choose a strategy than ensures it beats an opponent in the Prisoner’s dilemma game
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Mon Jul 16 2018
Animals shield their families from a harsh world
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Mon Jul 16 2018
When food is found in patches animals are predicted to go to a new patch before the patch is completely empty
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Wed May 02 2018
Animal signals are kept honest because only the fittest individuals can deal with their cost.
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Apr 20 2018
Damage to females during copulation is a side-effect of male adaptations to increase fertilizations not an adaptive strategy in its own right
Posted by: gentbt Posted Tue Apr 17 2018
Gut instinct makes animals appear clever
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Mon Apr 16 2018
Parents should negotiate over how much effort to put into raising their shared offspring
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Mon Apr 16 2018
People might gain lots of weight between diets because their subconscious thinks that diets are due to famines
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Sun Feb 18 2018
Great tits distinguish between foods of different quality depending on the frequency of the better type but not on the frequency of the worse type.
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Wed Dec 20 2017
Groups of humans show a general intelligence that is not simply related to individual intelligence, but social sensitivity and proportion of women
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017