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The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation.

Biology letters - 1 Jan 2013

Queller David C, Strassmann Joan E

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Lack of information is a constraint but ignorance can sometimes assist the evolution of cooperation by constraining selfishness. We discuss examples involving both ignorance of role or pay-off and ignorance of relatedness. Ignorance can favour cooperative traits like grouping and warning coloration and reduce conflicts from meiotic drive, imprinting, greenbeards and various forms of nepotism.

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PMID: 24132090
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0365
PMCID: PMC3871334

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