Martin Nowak
Professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard, where he directs the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
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Their wordsCooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization.
↗Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsCooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another.
↗Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work.
↗Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 3rd of 3 in this piece