Uncertainty about social interactions leads to the evolution of social heuristics KU Leuven
Individuals face many types of social interactions throughout their lives, but they often cannot perfectly assess what the consequences of their actions will be. It is known that unpredictable environments can profoundly affect the evolutionary process, but it remains unclear how uncertainty about the nature of social interactions has shaped the evolution of social behaviour. By means of an evolutionary simulation model, we here show that even ...