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The emergence of cooperation by evolutionary generalization

2021-01-27

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In principle, any cooperative behaviour can be evolutionarily stable as long as it is incentivized by a reward from the beneficiary, a mechanism that has been called reciprocal cooperation. However, what makes this mechanism so powerful also has an evolutionary downside. Reciprocal cooperation faces a chicken-and-egg problem of the same kind as communication: it requires two functions to evolve at the same time –c...

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9ae5726d-1007-5c26-8bb1-f70a5622e24b
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10.1101/2021.01.27.428436
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