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Cooperative male dolphins can tell who’s on their team
- op03 6y agoSo tit for tat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation#Axelrod's_tournaments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation#A...
- teachingassist 6y agoThis article is not describing tit-for-tat. Declaring that tit-for-tat is the best cooperative strategy, and then declaring that any observed cooperative strategy must be tit-for-tat, is a bit of circular logic.
- op03 6y agoNo idea what you are talking about and it is tit for tat.
- im3w1l 6y agoI believe tit-for-tat refers to a very particular strategy, where I help you if you helped me yesterday, without considering whether or not you helped me last week or last month. Thus tit-for-tat is very inclined to forgiveness, and also to discard old friends.
- fighterpilot 6y agoIt punishes old friends who just punished you. Tit for tat is the best strategy in prisoners dilemma.
- chmod775 6y agoThe title and perhaps the author of the article is missing the point. Of course dolphins can do that. A long list of animals could. This was a study of actual dolphin social behavior, not an intelligence test.
- sorokod 6y agoThis, from the research lead Dr. Stephanie King, sounds very dodgy "Bottlenose dolphins form the most complex alliances outside humans...". Is this categorical and at the same time vague statement really necessary for the research? and later "Our results show that cooperation-based concepts are not unique to humans, but also occur in other animal societies with extensive cooperation between non-kin."
- slver 6y agoI wonder if humans can.
- speed_spread 6y agoMy coworkers often sure don't.