Punisher pays

Manfred Milinski and Bettina Rockenbach
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Manfred Milinski: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Straße 2, D-24306 Plön, Germany. milinski@evolbio.mpg.de
Bettina Rockenbach: University of Erfurt, Nordhäuser Straße 63, D-99089 Erfurt, Germany. bettina.rockenbach@uni-erfurt.de

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7185, 297-298

Abstract: The tendency of humans to punish perceived free-loaders, even at a cost to themselves, is an evolutionary puzzle: punishers perish, and those who benefit the most are those who have never punished at all.

Date: 2008
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