Machiavellian strategist or cultural learner? Mentalizing and learning over development in a resource-sharing game

Theorists have sought to identify the key selection pressures that drove the evolution of our species’ cognitive abilities, life histories and cooperative inclinations. Focusing on two leading theories, each capable of accounting for many of the rapid changes in our lineage, we present a simple expe...

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Main Authors: Adam Baimel, Myriam Juda, Susan Birch, Joseph Henrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X21000116/type/journal_article