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So, awareness of the problem, a common knowledge, awareness that others know, you know that the others are aware of the problem, the generation of common knowledge.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Cooperation emerges when groups are small and memories are long, study finds
Katherine Unger Bailliephys.orgno more need to have them enforce our contracts.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
“When policing is more effective,” Ratnieks says, “there are fewer workers who try to lay eggs.” Melipona bees aren’t two thousand times “worse” than honeybees. They just have a system that lets them get away with selfish behavior, so they’re more evolutionarily selfish. Humans, in this respect, are much like bees.
Brian Klaas • Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
la loi de Briffault.
M. A • MGTOW: Ces hommes qui prennent leur propre chemin (French Edition)
Hawaiian women thus bore the responsibility of reproducing national knowledge
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
This “prey-switching” behavior is common to generalist predators and turns out to be ecologically stabilizing for the whole food web. As generalists turn their attention to different prey species, the species that were getting depleted get a chance to recover, reducing the risk of extinction.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Many enlightenments may be attained by studying the different forms and derivations of Price’s Equation. For example, the final equation says that the average characteristic changes according to its covariance with relative fitness, rather than its absolute fitness. This means that if a Frodo gene saves its whole species from extinction, the
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At Wetwang Slack, careful digging and dating allowed the sequence of burials in the cemetery to be disentangled. Clusters formed around primary interments – typically, an older woman buried with beads would be the ‘founder figure’ – her grave forming a focus for subsequent burials of more women, with or without beads. Those gendered clusters also
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