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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 Significance We use an analogy between financial trading strategies and biological species and characterize an evolutionary stable strategy in an ecology with fix-mix strategies. The basis of our paper is that dividends are not exogenous but increase with the wealth invested in an asset, as is the case in a production economy.
Thorsten Hens +9 more
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The cultural evolution of cultural evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved culturally. We present an evolutionary account that shows this hypothesis to be coherent, plausible, and worthy of further investigation. It has the following steps: (0) in
Jonathan Birch, Cecilia Heyes
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The evolution of deception [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Deception plays a critical role in the dissemination of information, and has important consequences on the functioning of cultural, market-based and democratic institutions. Deception has been widely studied within the fields of philosophy, psychology, economics and political science.
Iyad Rahwan +9 more
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Evolution of the nucleus [PDF]
Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2014 The nucleus represents a major evolutionary transition. As a consequence of separating translation from transcription many new functions arose, which likely contributed to the remarkable success of eukaryotic cells. Here we will consider what has recently emerged on the evolutionary histories of several key aspects of nuclear biology; the nuclear pore ...
Devos, Damien P +2 more
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Evolution of evolution of superbubbles [PDF]
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1997 AbstractIn the first place, I will summarize the evolution of our picture of the ISM over the past several decades in order to see the importance of superbubbles for ISM structure. In accordance with the progress of observations, the picture of the ISM has dramatically changed from the 1960s.
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Classical Evolution without Evolution
Universe, 2023 The well-known argument of Page and Wootters demonstrates how to “derive" the usual quantum dynamics of a subsystem in a global state which is an eigenstate of the total Hamiltonian. I show how the same argument can be made in classical physics by using a formalism that closely resembles the quantum one.
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Evolution of speech and evolution of language [PDF]
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2016 Speech is the physical signal used to convey spoken language. Because of its physical nature, speech is both easier to compare with other species' behaviors and easier to study in the fossil record than other aspects of language. Here I argue that convergent fossil evidence indicates adaptations for complex vocalizations at least as early as the common
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The evolution of concerted evolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 1998 Concerted evolution is a consequence of processes that convert copies of a gene in a multigene family into the same copy. Here we ask whether this homogenization may be adaptive.
Laurence D. Hurst, Nick G.C. Smith
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The Evolution of Conventions [PDF]
Econometrica, 1993 Abstract This chapter considers n-person games that are played repeatedly, but by different agents in each period. Players usually choose a myopic best response to a sample of information about what others players have done in the past, but occasionally they make mistakes.
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