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The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation

Author(s) -

David C. Queller,

Joan E. Strassmann

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

biology letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.596

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1744-957X

pISSN - 1744-9561

DOI - 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0365

Subject(s) - ignorance , selfishness , biology , constraint (computer aided design) , evolutionary biology , social psychology , psychology , political science , law , mechanical engineering , engineering

Lack of information is a constraint but ignorance can sometimes assist the evolution of cooperation by constraining selfishness. We discuss examples involving both ignorance of role or pay-off and ignorance of relatedness. Ignorance can favour cooperative traits like grouping and warning coloration and reduce conflicts from meiotic drive, imprinting, greenbeards and various forms of nepotism.

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