Cooperative Behavior Meshes With Evolutionary Theory
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 23:35
in Psychology & Sociology
One of the questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist. If only the fittest survive, genes for a behavior that benefits everybody in a population should not last and cooperative behavior should die out. Now researchers have used game theory to understand one solution yeast use to get around this problem.