What Martin Nowak thinks about evolutionary biology

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Professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard, where he directs the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.

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8 Dec 2006

Our readingCooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another.

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
8 Dec 2006

Our readingNatural selection opposes cooperation by default, so cooperation only survives where a specific mechanism is at work.

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