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physics.soc-ph2013★ 32 cited
Corruption Drives the Emergence of Civil Society
Sherief Abdallah, Rasha Sayed, Iyad Rahwan +4
Peer punishment of free-riders (defectors) is a key mechanism for promoting cooperation in society. However, it is highly unstable since some cooperators may contribute to a common…
q-bio.GN2013★ 136 cited
Friendship and Natural Selection
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
More than any other species, humans form social ties to individuals who are neither kin nor mates, and these ties tend to be with similar people. Here, we show that this similarity…