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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:48 PM
Subject: "it pays to be co-operative"
To: econowmix@googlegroups.com

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23529849

Published in Nature Communications, the team says their work shows that exhibiting only selfish traits would have made us become extinct.

... it pays to be co-operative, shown in a model of "the prisoner's dilemma", a scenario of game theory - the study of strategic decision-making.