Does similarity breed cooperation?

Rick L. Riolo (), Michael Cohen and Robert Axelrod
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Rick L. Riolo: Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Robert Axelrod: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Nature, 2002, vol. 418, issue 6897, 500-500

Abstract: Abstract Roberts and Sherratt argue that if agents with identical tags are allowed a choice of behaviour, then tag similarity can no longer be a reliable guide to behaviour and so similarity does not breed cooperation. Although they are correct in noting that in our model1 an agent will always donate when it meets another with an identical tag, we do not believe that their basic claim is correct.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/418500a

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