On the Evolutionary Edge of Altruism: A Game-Theoretic Proof of Hamilton's Rule for a Simple Case of Siblings

Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang
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You Qiang Wang: Tsinghua University

No 139, Economics Series from Institute for Advanced Studies

Abstract: We offer a game-theoretic proof of Hamilton's rule for the spread of altruism. For a simple case of siblings, we show that the rule can be derived as the outcome of a one-shot prisoner's dilemma game between siblings.

Keywords: Evolution of altruism; Hamilton's rule; One-shot prisoner's dilemma game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C70 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2003-09
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