Finding a Mate With No Social Skills Chris Marriott University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, Washington dr.chris.marriott@gmail.com Jobran Chebib University of Zürich 190 Winterthurerstrasse 8057 Zürich, Switzerland jobran.chebib@ieu.uzh.ch...
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Finding a Mate With No Social Skills Chris Marriott University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, Washington dr.chris.marriott@gmail.com Jobran Chebib University of Zürich 190 Winterthurerstrasse 8057 Zürich, Switzerland jobran.chebib@ieu.uzh.ch ABSTRACT Sexual reproductive behavior has a necessary social coordination component as willing and capable partners must both be in the right place at the right time. While there are many known social behavioral adaptations to support solutions to this problem, we explore the possibility and likelihood of solutions that rely only on non-social mechanisms. We find three kinds of social organization that help solve this social coordination problem (herding, assortative mating, and natal philopatry) emerge in populations of simulated agents with no social mechanisms available to support these organizations. We conclude that the non-social origins of these social organizations around sexual reproduction may provide the environment for the de
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