Dynamics of Alliance Formation and the Egalitarian Revolution

Sergey Gavrilets; Edgar A. Duenez-Guzman; Michael D. Vose

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003293

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Dynamics of Alliance Formation and the Egalitarian Revolution

Sergey Gavrilets ,

* E-mail: sergey@tiem.utk.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Edgar A. Duenez-Guzman,

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Michael D. Vose

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Dynamics of Alliance Formation and the Egalitarian Revolution

Sergey Gavrilets,
Edgar A. Duenez-Guzman,
Michael D. Vose

Published: October 1, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003293

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Awesome paper

Posted by maoforero on 02 Oct 2008 at 23:16 GMT

This paper provides a number of significant insights while being based on a considerably more realistic framework that is in sharp contrast with previous approaches to social evolution (e.g., game theory and kin selection).

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Posted by maoforero on 02 Oct 2008 at 23:16 GMT