title: Partner selection, coordination games, and group selection.
abstract: The process of partner selection reflects ethnographic realities where cooperative rewards obtain that would otherwise be lost to loners. Baumard et al. neglect frequency-dependent processes exemplified by games of coordination. Such games can produce multiple equilibria that may or may not include fair outcomes. Additional, group-selection processes are required to produce the outcomes predicted by the models.
authors: Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. alvard@tamu.edu
authors: Michael S
authors: MS
authors: Alvard
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009014:Morals; D012747:Sexual Partners