Abstract
Reciprocal altruism and the prisoners’ dilemma are explained and it is related that there are very few examples of these processes in nature. They do seem to exist in some species of primates , however, and have given rise to “the social brain hypothesis ” indicating that sociality has driven the evolution of the primate brain. Finally, conditions for cooperation to arise through indirect reciprocity , network reciprocity and group selection are outlined.
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Lindenfors, P. (2017). Friends. In: For Whose Benefit?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50874-0_6
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