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Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, George Williams, and Stephen J. Gould, among others, have pointed out that observing that a certain behavior causes a certain effect does not itself license the inference that the effect was the result of intent or design to bring about that effect....
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The collective welfare of crop plants, their microbial symbionts, farmers, and society can be undermined by tragedies of the commons. A crop could increase resource allocation to grain if each plant invested less in sending roots into soil already explored by neighbors and less in stem growth....
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carefully-chosen analytic tools, including the role of sexual selection, brain size, public versus positional goods, and …
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The paradox of widespread cooperation in an intensely competitive natural world has been a major focus of theory and … it might also be useful to view cooperation (and biological complexity) from a bioeconomic perspective. Here I will … briefly explore the case for a paradigm shift, with special reference to the role of functional synergy as a distinct class of …
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We use data on response times from a public goods experiment to test the hypothesis that cooperation is instinctive … hypothesis that cooperation is instinctive, while defection is ‘rational’. Moreover, as the experiment is designed also to assess … the effects of the consumption of relational goods on cooperation, we are also able to state that some types of relational …
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-group competition can explain the evolution of non-kin cooperation. We conclude that a complete understanding of human behaviour …
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without cooperation with developed countries, technical assistance of the EU-PHARE program and a range of other programs. The … economy and the positive contribution from cooperation between Lithuania and industrialised countries in several areas overall …
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Facing rapid urbanisation in developing countries, public utilities' electricity management is challenged by an ever-growing demand and collapsing infrastructures. Economic growth and consumers' related behaviours add to the technical and governance problems. We analyse the ways in which...
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This article presents characteristics of Latvian economics. A detailed analysis is given for the cooperation of Latvia … and Eastern Europe Countries, intended for the research "Cooperation between developed and post-transformation countries …
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