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Alexander J. Stewart
Researcher at University of Surrey
Publications - 58
Citations - 1560
Alexander J. Stewart is an academic researcher from University of Surrey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Biology. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 49 publications receiving 1134 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander J. Stewart include University of Houston & University of St Andrews.
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From extortion to generosity, evolution in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
TL;DR: This work identifies a closely related set of generous strategies, which cooperate with others and forgive defection, that replace extortionists and dominate in large populations of players in iterated, two-player games.
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Extortion and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma
TL;DR: In PNAS, Press and Dyson dramatically expand the understanding of this classic game by uncovering strategies that provide a unilateral advantage to sentient players pitted against unwitting opponents.
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Why Transcription Factor Binding Sites Are Ten Nucleotides Long
TL;DR: A population-genetic model is developed to understand how the length and information content of DNA binding sites evolve, uncovering strong relationships between the length of a binding site and its information content per nucleotide, as well as between the number of targets a transcription factor regulates and the information content in its binding sites.
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Collapse of cooperation in evolving games
TL;DR: It is shown that, when there is a tradeoff between the benefits and costs of cooperation, coevolution often leads to a dramatic loss of cooperation in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.
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Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions
Alexander J. Stewart,Mohsen Mosleh,Marina Diakonova,Antonio A. Arechar,David G. Rand,Joshua B. Plotkin +5 more
TL;DR: A voter game is developed as a model system to study information flow in collective decisions and identifies extensive information gerrymandering in real-world influence networks, including online political discussions leading up to the US federal elections, and in historical patterns of bill co-sponsorship in the US Congress and European legislatures.