The ecological rationality of decision criteria.

Standard evolutionary game theory investigates the evolutionary fitness of alternative behaviors in a fixed and single decision problem. This paper instead focuses on decision criteria, rather than on simple behaviors, as the general behavioral rules under selection in the population: the evolutiona...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 198; no. 12; pp. 11241 - 11265
Autores principales: Galeazzi, Paolo, Galeazzi, Alessandro
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021
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          University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
          University of Copenhagen, CIBS, Copenhagen, Denmark
          University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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        Monte Carlo method
        Biological fitness
        Statistical decision making
        Expected utility
        Evolutionary theories
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          Biological fitness
          Statistical decision making
          Expected utility
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        Decision criteria
        Ecological rationality
        Evolutionary selection
        Population games
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