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Author(s): | Peter Hammerstein | |||
Collection: | Dahlem Workshop Reports | |||
Publisher: | The MIT Press | |||
Year: | 2003 | |||
Language: | English | |||
Pages: | 501 pages | |||
Size: | 3.68 MB | |||
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[content title="Description"]Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that conflict arises; the emergence of cooperation, however, is less straightforward and calls for in-depth analysis. Much research is now focused on defining and expanding the evolutionary models of cooperation. Understanding the mechanisms of cooperation has relevance for fields other than biology. Anthropology, economics, mathematics, political science, primatology, and psychology are adopting the evolutionary approach and developing analogies based on it. Similarly, biologists use elements of economic game theory and analyze cooperation in "evolutionary games." Despite this, exchanges between researchers in these different disciplines have been limited. Seeking to fill this gap, the 90th Dahlem Workshop was convened. This book, which grew out of that meeting, [/content]
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[content title="About the author"]Hammerstein combines experimental economy, evolutionary theory, and human behaviour. He has for example tested to what degree human particpants in an economic game are willing to cooperate, even when the participants do not know each other. His results break down the preconception that all participants in economic games act rationally. In contrast, he shows how cooperation, and not egoism, is typical for the human species.
Peter Hammerstein is Professor at the Department of Theoretical Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. [/content]
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