BIO320H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Guppy, Group Selection
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Bio320 lecture 18: adaptive trade-offs in the use of social and personal information. The acquisition of knowledge from other-provides na ve animals with information including when, where, what and how to eat, with whom to mate (or fight), and which predators to avoid, and how to do so. Common assumed that such copying is adaptive not ture- because if the big trade-off. Individual animals face evolutionary trade-offs between the acquisition of costly but accurate information (personal information collected by you) and the use of cheap but potentially less reliable information (social information) Given that there is this trade-off between accurate info and cheap info is that the animal should evolve flexible strategies to dictate when and when not to use social interactions information. When they should rely on individually gained information alone. Theoretical models of social learning predict that it should not be employed in an indiscriminate manner.
