Erez Yoeli

TO EXPLAIN ALL OF OUR SOCIAL puzzles, we will use game theory, but the game theory will often be hidden and will need to be interpreted through the lens of learning and evolutionary processes. The explanations we will be using game theory to uncover will all be of the ultimate (not proximate!) and etic (not emic!) variety, focusing on primary (not secondary!) rewards.

The distinction between proximate and functional explanations originated with biologists