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Paper

2006

Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation

Martin A. Nowak

Sets out five distinct mechanisms - kin selection, direct and indirect reciprocity, network reciprocity and group selection - by which cooperation can be favoured despite its cost to the cooperator.

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Filed under Evolutionary Biology in Biology.