Human cooperation by lethal group competition

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Egas, Martijn ^a   Kats, Ralph ^a   Van Der Sar, Xander ^a   Reuben, Ernesto ^b   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; GAME; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN;

COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS;

EID: 84875181594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01373     Document Type: Article

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