Evolution of cooperation by generalized reciprocity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1568, 2005, Pages 1115-1120

  Pfeiffer, Thomas ^a   Rutte, Claudia ^b   Killingback, Timothy ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^b   Bonhoeffer, Sebastian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Evolution; Game theory; Reciprocal altruism; Tit for tat

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; PRISONER DILEMMA; RECIPROCITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; GAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 22544437895     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2988     Document Type: Article

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