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Outsourcing Memory Through Niche Construction
Edward D. Lee, Jessica C. Flack, David C. Krakauer
Adaptation to changing environments is a universal feature of life and can involve the organism modifying itself in response to the environment as well as actively modifying the en…
Cryptographic Nature
David Krakauer
I consider the many ways in which evolved information-flows are restricted and metabolic resources protected and hidden -- the thesis of living phenomena as evolutionary cryptosyst…
The Information Theory of Individuality
David Krakauer, Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich +2
We consider biological individuality in terms of information theoretic and graphical principles. Our purpose is to extract through an algorithmic decomposition system-environment b…
Evidence of strategic periodicities in collective conflict dynamics
Simon DeDeo, David C. Krakauer, Jessica C. Flack
We analyze the timescales of conflict decision-making in a primate society. We present evidence for multiple, periodic timescales associated with social decision-making and behavio…
Inductive Game Theory and the Dynamics of Animal Conflict
Simon DeDeo, David C. Krakauer, Jessica C. Flack
Conflict destabilizes social interactions and impedes cooperation at multiple scales of biological organization. Of fundamental interest are the causes of turbulent periods of conf…