Variation in behaviour promotes cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma game

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6984, 2004, Pages 745-748

  McNamara, John M ^a   Barta, Zoltan ^a   Houston, Alasdair I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EVOLUTIONARY GAMES; NATURAL SELECTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

PRISONER DILEMMA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CALCULATION; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1942455801     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02432     Document Type: Article

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