Evolution of stable reciprocity through the maintenance of discrimination

Abstract excerpt

Human cooperation among non-kin has long been accepted as being based on reciprocity – the idea that we return help from individuals that we re-meet. However, this paradigm has been challenged by Efferson et al. (Efferson, C., et al., Super-additive cooperation. Nature , 2024. 626, 1034-1041) who found that repeated interaction was insufficient to support cooperation without selection between groups. The authors...

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• Biological Evolution
• Cooperative Behavior
• Game Theory
• Mutation
• Population Density
• Population Dynamics
• Selection, Genetic
• Stochastic Processes

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Literature Corpus work

003724ae-2883-506d-be9b-8552b4a1b630

DOI

10.1101/2024.12.17.628959