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MIT: Cooperative Behavior Meshes With Evolutionary Theory

April 6, 2009

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 MIT researchers have used game theory to understand one solution yeast use to get around this problem. Full Story

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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