Mathematical models of social evolution: A guide for the perplexed
By R. Mcelreath, Robert Boyd. 2007
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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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- A Guide to Sexual Selection Theory (2012, background): “Nonetheless, we believe that the disadvantages of simulation models are often overemphasized (e.g., McElreath & Boyd 2007, p. 8), especially given advantages such as relative ease of implementation and applicability to all kinds of situations.”
- Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists (2009, background): “Indeed, it has been noted that what all theories of altruism (kin selection, reciprocal altruism, group selection) have in common is the importance of the covariance between the tendency to be altruistic and the frequency of other altruists encountered (McElreath and Boyd 2007).”
- Do sincere apologies need to be costly? Test of a costly signaling model of apology (2009, unknown): “More relevant to the apology-making context, McElreath and Boyd (2007) proposed a similar explanation for why the contrite tit-for-tat (CTFT) strategy works in the noisy repeated prisoner's dilemma game, in which players sometimes defect by mistake.”
- Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission (2008, methodology): “Using basic techniques in nonlinear dynamics (Hoy, Livernois, Mckenna, Rees, & Stengos, 2001; McElreath & Boyd, 2007), however, one can show that their aggregate effects are entirely different (Efferson & Richerson, 2007).”
- When Natural Selection Favors Imitation of Parents (2008, methodology): “With theˆ ˆ ˆ ˆE(i) E(s ) E(s ) E(v )1 0 1 steady-state frequencies of types in hand, we conducted linear stability analysis (see McElreath and Boyd 2007, chap.”