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Re:New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves by woodandsteel on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:37PM (#14614722)
Yes, they start out with game theory, which is only about rewards, and then add in punishment.

Game theory is enormously insightful, but It leaves out a great many factors that are very important in the real world, such as communication between the parties,uncertain rules, and reputation.

Re:New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves by jballanc on Friday June 23, 2017 @03:51AM (#14617624)
All the factors you mention are accounted for by researchers that use game theory as the basis for evolutionary modeling (for a primer, check out "Evolutionary games on graphs" - https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607344).
Re:New Model of Evolution Reveals How Cooperation Evolves by woodandsteel on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:08PM (#14623426)
Ok, I was confusing the prisoner's dilemma with game theory as such.