Martin Nowak
Professor of Mathematics and of Biology at Harvard University; Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, studying the mathematics of cooperation, cancer and virus dynamics.
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Evolution could not have built new levels of organization at all without cooperation.
Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govSaid 8 Dec 2006This on korrents
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Evolution could not have built new levels of organization at all without cooperation.
Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization.
Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central) Said 8 Dec 2006
Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another.
Cooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another.
Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central) Said 8 Dec 2006
Natural selection opposes cooperation by default, so cooperation only survives where a specific mechanism is at work.
But natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work.
Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central) Said 8 Dec 2006
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