The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation.
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Lack of information is a constraint but ignorance can sometimes assist the evolution of cooperation by constraining selfishness. We discuss examples involving both ignorance of role or pay-off and ignorance of relatedness. Ignorance can favour cooperative traits like grouping and warning coloration and reduce conflicts from meiotic drive, imprinting, greenbeards and various forms of nepotism.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Biology letters
دوره 9 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013