for cooperation to be part of an asymptotically stable equilibrium of an evolutionary dynamics of signaling norm …The article suggests a new explanation for cooperation in large, unstructured societies that avoids the restrictions … internalization, behavior and norm adoption. These conditions put the signaling costs of norm-adopters and non-adopters, the strength …

Evolution of cooperation has traditionally been studied by assuming that individuals adopt either of two pure … promotes the evolution of cooperation, our investigation gives a comprehensive picture of how relatedness affects the evolution … strategies, to cooperate or defect. Recent work has considered continuous cooperative investments, turning full cooperation and …

This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …

This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …

for biological fitness. The process is predominately envisaged as a process of what I am going to term 'blind evolution …': a combination of random variation and selection. The idea of randomness is put into question. If evolution is is to be …