On the Evolution of Altruistic Cooperation

Ilan Eshel, Daphna Weinshall and Uzi Motro
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Ilan Eshel: Tel Aviv University, Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics
Daphna Weinshall: MIT, Center of Biological Information Processing
Uzi Motro: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Statistics and Genetics

A chapter in Biomathematics and Related Computational Problems, 1988, pp 279-282 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Cooperation is a sort of behavior that, if followed by all participants of a game, increases the payoff of each. Altruistic behavior is such that, if followed by one individual alone, it decreases its own payoff but helps the other. Altruistic cooperation is the combination of both. For example, so is the first strategy of each player in the two-player game with the following payoff matrix:

Keywords: Survival Probability; Repeated Game; Altruistic Behavior; Nash Solution; Full Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2975-3_25

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