Do asymmetries destabilize the Prisoner's Dilemma and make reciprocal altruism unlikely?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 339-341

  Dawkins, Marian Stamp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Dominance hierarchy; Prisoner's Dilemma; Reciprocal altruism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954759825     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.005     Document Type: Note

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