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ON THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY AND RELIGION: A RESPONSE TO LEE CRONK
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1994-09)
Issue is taken with Dawkins and Krebs's (1978) conception of communication as being by nature manipulative and with Cronk's proposals concerning the evolution of morality, both of which are grounded in evolutionary biology. ...
Dynamics of populations with nonoverlapping generations, continuous mortality, and discrete reproductive periods
(Elsevier, 1994-08)
Simple nonlinear difference equations have been used to describe the growth of populations with nonoverlapping generations; these equations assume mortality and recruitment to be discrete and instantaneous. In reality, ...
Extrapolating human probability judgment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-03)
We advance a model of human probability judgment and apply it to the design of an extrapolation algorithm. Such an algorithm examines a person's judgment about the likelihood of various statements and is then able to predict ...
The qualitative behavior of coupled predator-prey oscillations as deduced from simple circle maps
(Elsevier, 1994-05)
Qualitative patterns of the non-equilibrium behavior of coupled consumer/resource systems, formulated as a standard circle map, are explored. Patterns of demographic locking, reflected as a "devil's staircase", are observed ...