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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."
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keywords: "prisoner's dilemma, evolution of altruism, genetic algorithm, spatial organization, game theory"
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  - bio-ani-behav
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  - bio-etho
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  - bio-socio
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title: "Evolving cooperation in the non-iterated prisoner's dilemma: The importance of spatial organization"
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