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Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

Published:2010-04-09 Issue:5975 Volume:328 Page:208-213
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Rendell L.¹,Boyd R.²,Cownden D.³,Enquist M.⁴⁵,Eriksson K.⁵⁶,Feldman M. W.⁷,Fogarty L.¹,Ghirlanda S.⁵⁸,Lillicrap T.⁹,Laland K. N.¹

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, Queen's Terrace, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, UK.

2. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Jeffery Hall, University Avenue, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.

4. Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 11691 Stockholm, Sweden.

5. Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, 11691 Stockholm, Sweden.

6. School of Education, Culture, and Communication, Mälardalen University, 72123 Västerås, Sweden.

7. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

8. Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy.

9. Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.

Abstract

It Pays to Be a Copy Cat Does it pay to copy what others do? Rendell et al. (p. 208 ) elected to copy Robert Axelrod's 1979 tournament in which strategies for playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma game were pitted against each other until an overall winner emerged—the tit-for-tat strategy. In the 2008 tournament, 100 social learning strategies designed to cope with a changing environment competed against each other; the winning strategy involved sampling the behaviors of other players periodically, rather than exploring the environment alone.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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