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The evolution of high-fidelity social learning
Marcel Montrey, Thomas R. Shultz
A defining feature of human culture is that knowledge and technology continually improve over time. Such cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) probably depends far more heavily on ho…
Outgroup Homogeneity Bias Causes Ingroup Favoritism
Marcel Montrey, Thomas R. Shultz
Ingroup favoritism, the tendency to favor ingroup over outgroup, is often explained as a product of intergroup conflict, or correlations between group tags and behavior. Such accou…
Comparing fitness and drift explanations of Neanderthal replacement
Daniel R. Shultz, Marcel Montrey, Thomas R. Shultz
There is a general consensus among archaeologists that replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans in Europe occurred around 40K to 35K YBP. However, the causal mecha…
Evolving useful delusions: Subjectively rational selfishness leads to objectively irrational cooperation
Artem Kaznatcheev, Marcel Montrey, Thomas R. Shultz
We introduce a framework within evolutionary game theory for studying the distinction between objective and subjective rationality and apply it to the evolution of cooperation on 3…