Behaviour
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Interactions between and within groups of agents influence their behaviour
- Relationships drives behaviours, e.g., cognitive capabilities (Private), culture
- Environmental, biological and evolutionary factors influence behaviours
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Behaviours do not always follow rationalist frameworks, e.g., criticisms of evolutionary psychology, mal-adaptions,1 failure of economic incentives, irrational behaviour
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Measurement can generalise behaviour
- Statistical models flatten diversity
- Simulations rely on simplification via algorithms
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Ethology is the study of animal behaviour
Footnotes
Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 205, no. 1161 (1979): 581–98, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1979.0086.˄
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