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Old 07-19-2008, 10:02 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sapiens
Bob Trivers was the first person to describe the conditions under which reciprocal altruism should evolve. He's one of the more well-known biologists in the history of evolutionary biology. His paper is:

Trivers, R. L. 1971. The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology 46:35-57.

A LOT of biological research on altruism was inspired by his paper.
Fantastic! I'll definitely give that a read.
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