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Adaptation and Natural Selection
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The article was published on 1966-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4508 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Adaptation & Natural selection.read more
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The Evolution of Cooperation
R. B. Greene,Robert Axelrod +1 more
TL;DR: A model is developed based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game to show how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
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The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
TL;DR: In this paper, a model is presented to account for the natural selection of what is termed reciprocally altruistic behavior, and the model shows how selection can operate against the cheater (non-reciprocator) in the system.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
TL;DR: To understand the central claims of evolutionary psychology the authors require an understanding of some key concepts in evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.
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Exaptation; a missing term in the science of form
TL;DR: This work presents several examples of exaptation, indicating where a failure to concep- tualize such an idea limited the range of hypotheses previously available, and proposes a terminological solution to the problem of preadaptation.