Variable investment, the Continuous Prisoner's Dilemma, and the origin of cooperation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1430, 1999, Pages 1723-1728

  Killingback, Timothy ^a   Doebeli, Michael ^a   Knowlton, Nancy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Continuous Prisoner's Dilemma; Evolution of cooperation; Spatial games; Stochastic games

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; INVESTMENT; PRISONER DILEMMA;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033533543     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0838     Document Type: Article

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