Modeling Macaque Fighting Dynamics with the Evolutionary Model Discovery Framework to Understand Its Application and Utility

In this study we use a simple case study of macaque fighting dynamics to develop and use the Evolutionary Model Discovery (EMD) framework [7, 8]. Rather than focus on the macaque populations EMD created, we will focus on our use of the EMD framework. Application of the EMD framework is not straight forward and involves making many decisions that may ultimately impact one's results. Here we highlight many of these and explain how we navigated this process.