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    Supports→Classical game theory predicts non-human animal behavior more straightforwardly than human behavior because of different levels of complication in the relationships between auxiliary assumptions and phenomena.

    Economic theory identifies maximizing units—economic agents—with unchanging preference fields.

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    Why has classical game theory helped to predict non-human animal behavior more straightforwardly than it has done most human behavior? The answer is presumed to lie in different levels of complication amongst the relationships between auxiliary assumptions and phenomena. Ross (2005a) offers the following account. Utility-maximization and fitness-maximization problems are the domain of economics. Economic theory identifies the maximizing units—economic agents—with unchanging preference fields.

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