Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4498039 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2009 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The scale and complexity of human cooperation is an important and unresolved evolutionary puzzle. This article uses the finitely repeated nn person Prisoners’ Dilemma game to illustrate how sapience can greatly enhance group-selection effects and lead to the evolutionary stability of cooperation in large groups. This affords a simple and direct explanation of the human “exception.”
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Authors
Casey G. Rothschild,