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Social Intelligence Hypothesis |
The ability to recall information about relationships within groups favor fitness |
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Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis |
Elaborate learning potential is favored by the adaptive value of deceitful political behavior Selective pressures for increased number and complexity of deceptive behavior (memes) can lead to runaway selection -Arms Race |
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Memetics |
Culture as an additive property of individual's behavior |
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Meme |
A transmittable unit of cultural behavior not associated with a specific gene |
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3 types of cultural transmission |
1. Vertical-parents to offspring 2. Horizontal-within cohort 3. Oblique-across cohort, but not from parents (new person enters cohort) |
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Teaching |
Experienced individual serves as a tutor for naive individuals, with no direct benefit to itself |
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Social Facilitation |
The mere presence of other individuals is thought to facilitate learning |
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Local Enhancement |
Learning facilitated by being drawn to the locality of others Best when resources are intense, patchy and ephermal |
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Social Learning |
A change in individuals' behavior as a result of observing others Experience is transmitted Development of non-genetic regional variation in behavior Behavior is transmitted rapidly |
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Market phenomena |
Have multiple organisms you can collaborate with and only choosing the few that are profitable |
