Evolution of cooperation: combining kin selection and reciprocal altruism into matrix games with social dilemmas.

Darwinian selection should preclude cooperation from evolving; yet cooperation is widespread among organisms. We show how kin selection and reciprocal altruism can promote cooperation in diverse 2×2 matrix games (prisoner's dilemma, snowdrift, and hawk-dove). We visualize kin selection as non-r...

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Main Authors: Som B Ale, Joel S Brown, Amy T Sullivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3661668?pdf=render