Defectors Can Create Conditions That Rescue Cooperation.
Cooperation based on the production of costly common goods is observed throughout nature. This is puzzling, as cooperation is vulnerable to exploitation by defectors which enjoy a fitness advantage by consuming the common good without contributing fairly. Depletion of the common good can lead to pop...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-12-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004645 |