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Kurzban, Robert; DeScioli, Peter - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 3, pp. 269-279

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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Cooperative and non-cooperative management of the Northeast Atlantic cod fishery

Bjørndal, Trond; Lindroos, Marko - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 14 (2012) 1, pp. 41-60

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Tag-Mediated Altruism is Contingent on How Cheaters Are Defined

Shutters, Shade T.; Hales, David - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (2013) 1, pp. 4-4

Cooperation is essential for complex biological and social systems and explaining its evolutionary origins remains a … central question in several disciplines. Tag systems are a class of models demonstrating the evolution of cooperation between …

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Increasing cooperation among plants, symbionts, and farmers is key to past and future progress in agriculture

Denison, R. - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 16 (2014) 3, pp. 223-238

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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Cooperation with Random Interactions and Without Memory or "tags"

Fort, Hugo - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 6 (2003) 2, pp. 4-4

The self-organization into cooperative regimes of a system of "selfish" agents playing the pairwise Prisoner's Dilemma game (PDG) is analyzed using a simple agent-based model. At each time step t, the agents divide into those who cooperate (C) and those who defect (D). The agents have no memory...

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Sex on the brain: some comments on ‘love, war and cultures: An institutional approach to human evolution’

Hodgson, Geoffrey - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 1, pp. 91-95

carefully-chosen analytic tools, including the role of sexual selection, brain size, public versus positional goods, and …

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Rotating the Necker cube: A bioeconomic approach to cooperation and the causal role of synergy in evolution

Corning, Peter - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 2, pp. 171-193

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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Is cooperation instinctive? Evidence from the response times in a public goods game

Lotito, Gianna; Migheli, Matteo; Ortona, Guido - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 2, pp. 123-133

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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Applying evolutionary theory to human behaviour: past differences and current debates

Brown, Gillian; Richerson, Peter - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 16 (2014) 2, pp. 105-128

-group competition can explain the evolution of non-kin cooperation. We conclude that a complete understanding of human behaviour …

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A Forgiving Strategy for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

O'Riordan, Colm - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 3 (2000) 4, pp. 3-3

-)establishing cooperation. The strategy is compared to well-known strategies in the domain and results presented. The initial findings, as well …

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