Martin Nowak
Person on 2 sites
Professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard, where he directs the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2006-12-08 -
3 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Evolution could not have built new levels of organization at all without cooperation. (opens korrents.com)
“Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization.”
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Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another. (opens korrents.com)
“Cooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another.”
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Natural selection opposes cooperation by default, so cooperation only survives where a specific mechanism is at work. (opens korrents.com)
“But natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work.”
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Evolution could not have built new levels of organization at all without cooperation. (opens korrents.com)