Game theory, cooperation and very cool stuff

We're reading this press release about some interesting research that shows mathematically how cooperation can arise as part of evolution:
https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-biologists-show-generosity-leads-evolutionary-success



If you wish to cite this work, use the full version:
Alexander J. Stewart and Joshua B. Plotkin. (2013). "From extortion to generosity, evolution in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma" PNAS 2013 110 (38) 15348-15353. Retrieved from: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/38/15348.full

This is what else we've been looking at:


Absolute Zero -The Conquest Of Cold by costello74

In the first part of Absolute Zero, we see how our understanding of coldness developed through experimentation, documentation, creating a standard scale of measurement, a credible but false theory, trying to find a commercial application...

A transcript of the program is available here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3501_zero.html