====== Martin Nowak: Evolution Of Cooperation ======

[[wp>Martin Nowak]]

Why has cooperation, not competition, always been the key to the evolution of complexity?  Talks about [[analysis:evolution:meta_evolution]], [[analysis:concept:optimization | evolution as optimization]], [[analysis:social:cooperation]] and [[wp>Game Theory]].

MARTIN NOWAK is a Mathematical Biologist, Game Theorist; Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Director, Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Coauthor (with Roger Highfield), SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed.

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There is one thing that I have learned in my studies of cooperation over the last 20 years: there is no equilibrium. There is never a stable equilibrium. Cooperation is always being destroyed and has to be rebuilt. How much time you spend on average in a cooperative state depends on how quickly you can rebuild it. 
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Watch: [[http://edge.org/conversation/evolution-of-cooperation-nowak | Evolution of Cooperation, Edge.org]]


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