Cooperation: integrating evolutionary and ecological perspectives.
Putting a competitive squeeze on a cooperative group has long been considered to encourage cheats. Now we learn that competition, by driving diversification among cooperators, can create groups that are both more productive and more resistant to defection.
Brown
Sam P
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Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. sam.brown@cantab.net
D018441:Biofilms; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003163:Competitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017753:Ecosystem; D011551:Pseudomonas fluorescens