---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:48 PM Subject: "it pays to be co-operative" To: [email protected] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23529849 Published in Nature Communications<http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130801/ncomms3193/full/ncomms3193.html>, 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. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/