Cooperating with the future

Oliver Hauser, David G. Rand, Alexander Peysakhovich and Martin A. Nowak ()
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David G. Rand: Yale University
Alexander Peysakhovich: Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
Martin A. Nowak: Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University

Nature, 2014, vol. 511, issue 7508, 220-223

Abstract: An intergenerational cooperation game has been developed to study decision-making regarding resource use: when decisions about resource extraction were made individually the resource was rapidly depleted by a minority of defectors; the resource was sustainably maintained across generations, however, when decisions were made democratically by voting.

Date: 2014
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