The evolution of reciprocity in sizable human groups.
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The scale and complexity of human cooperation is an important and unresolved evolutionary puzzle. This article uses the finitely repeated n 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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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of theoretical biology
دوره 257 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009