Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary stability in finite populations

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6983, 2004, Pages 646-650

  Nowak, Martin A ^a,b   Sasaki, Akira ^c   Taylor, Christine ^a,d   Fudenherg, Drew ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY;

FINITE POPULATIONS; GAME DYNAMIC FORMULATION; NATURAL SELECTION; RECIPROCITY;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; COST; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 1942517277     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02414     Document Type: Article

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