Providing information can be a stable non-cooperative evolutionary strategy

Details Providing information can be a stable non-cooperative evolutionary strategy Providing information can be a stable non-cooperative evolutionary strategy

2011-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/1108.5431v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

15 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

Human language is still an embarrassment for evolutionary theory, as the speaker's benefit remains unclear. The willingness to communicate information is shown here to be an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS), even if acquiring original information from the environment involves significant cost and communicating it provides no material benefit to addressees. In this study, communication is used to advertise the emitter's ability to obtain novel information. We found that communication strategies can take two forms, competitive and uniform, that these two strategies are stable and that they necessarily coexist.

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