Chaos and the evolution of cooperation.

doi:10.1073/pnas.90.11.5091

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Chaos and the evolution of cooperation.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Jun 1993

Nowak M, Sigmund K

Abstract excerpt

The "iterated prisoner's dilemma" is the most widely used model for the evolution of cooperation in biological societies. Here we show that a heterogeneous population consisting of simple strategies, whose behavior is totally specified by the outcome of the previous round, can lead to persistent...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Game Theory
Genotype
Mathematics
Models, Biological
Mutation
Probability

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