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Reconciling ecology and evolutionary game theory or ‘When not to think cooperation’

2024-07-15

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Evolutionary game theory (EGT)—overwhelmingly employed today for the study of cooperation in a variety of systems, from microbes to cancer and from insect to human societies—started with the seminal 1973 paper by John Maynard Smith and George Price [1], in which they probed the logic of limited war in animal conflict. If fighting was essential to get access to mates and territory, then why did fights rarely lead t...

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616cad41-bfcf-5427-b5b6-8ba849edafc7
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10.1101/2024.07.10.602961
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