@misc{cogprints170, editor = {R. and Maes Brooks}, title = {Evolving cooperation in the non-iterated prisoner's dilemma: The importance of spatial organization}, author = {M. Oliphant}, publisher = {MIT Press}, year = {1998}, pages = {349--352}, keywords = {prisoner's dilemma, evolution of altruism, genetic algorithm, spatial organization, game theory}, url = {http://cogprints.org/170/}, abstract = {Most work on evolving cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma treats the non-iterated game as an undesirable simple case that should be risen above. It has been taken as a given that populations evolving to play the non-iterated game will always converge on defection. This paper questions this assumption, and demonstrates that organizing a population spatially dramatically changes the nature of the game and allows cooperation to emerge.} }