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Cooperation Prevails When Individuals Adjust Their Social Ties

  • Francisco C Santos,

    Affiliation Computer and Decision Engineering Department, Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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  • Jorge M Pacheco,

    Affiliations Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science, Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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  • Tom Lenaerts

    *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tlenaert@vub.ac.be

    Affiliations SWITCH Laboratory, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium , Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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Cooperation Prevails When Individuals Adjust Their Social Ties

  • Francisco C Santos,  …
  • Jorge M Pacheco, 
  • Tom Lenaerts
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  • Published: October 20, 2006
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020140
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