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Population dynamics, demographic stochasticity, and the evolution of cooperation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 May 1997
Doebeli M, Blarer A, Ackermann M
Abstract excerpt
A basic evolutionary problem posed by the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game is to understand when the paradigmatic cooperative strategy Tit-for-Tat can invade a population of pure defectors. Deterministically, this is impossible. We consider the role of demographic stochasticity by embedding the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma into a population dynamic framework. Tit-for-Tat can invade a population of defectors when...
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