Evolutionary game theory is a truly interdisciplinary subject that goes well beyond the limits
of biology. Mathematical minds get hooked up in simple models for evolution and often …

Why would natural selection favor the prevalence of cooperation within the groups of selfish
individuals? A fruitful framework to address this question is evolutionary game theory, the …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

The ability to perceive and recognise a reflected mirror image as self (mirror self-recognition,
MSR) is considered a hallmark of cognition across species. Although MSR has been …

Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization. Genomes, cells,
multicellular organisms, social insects, and human society are all based on cooperation …

MUCH attention has been given to the Prisoners' Dilemma as a metaphor for the problems
surrounding the evolution of coopera-tive behaviour1–6. This work has dealt with the …

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that
transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in …

The author shares some lessons learned from a lifetime of working with and thinking about
groups. Three types of groups are described, including the impact they have on the …

Darwinian evolution has to provide an explanation for cooperative behaviour. Theories of
cooperation are based on kin selection (dependent on genetic relatedness),, group …

THE Prisoner's Dilemma is the leading metaphor for the evolution of cooperative behaviour
in populations of selfish agents, especially since the well-known computer tournaments of …