Do we expect natural selection to produce rational behaviour?
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Do we expect natural selection to produce rational behaviour?
We expect that natural selection should result in behavioural rules which perform well; however, animals (including humans) sometimes make bad decisions. Researchers account for these with a variety of explanations; we concentrate on two of them. One explanation is that the outcome is a side effect; what matters is how a rule performs (in terms of reproductive success). Several rules may perfor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2051