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Samuel Bowles uses | Samuel Bowles uses evolutionary game theory models based off extensive research and focused on empirically verifiable results to attempt to draw a mathmatical picture of the mechanisms underpinning the emergence of various social institutions and conventions. Although the specific models do not mean that social institutions historically developed in this manner, they do provide plausible explanations for how they could have developed. |
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Samuel Bowles uses evolutionary game theory models based off extensive research and focused on empirically verifiable results to attempt to draw a mathmatical picture of the mechanisms underpinning the emergence of various social institutions and conventions. Although the specific models do not mean that social institutions historically developed in this manner, they do provide plausible explanations for how they could have developed.