title: Launching "the evolution of cooperation".
abstract: This article describes three aspects of the author's early work on the evolution of the cooperation. First, it explains how the idea for a computer tournament for the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma was inspired by the artificial intelligence research on computer checkers and computer chess. Second, it shows how the vulnerability of simple reciprocity of misunderstanding or misimplementation can be eliminated with the addition of some degree of generosity or contrition. Third, it recounts the unusual collaboration between the author, a political scientist, and William D. Hamilton, an evolutionary biologist.
authors.affiliation: Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA. axe@umich.edu
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Axelrod
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005716:Game Theory; D005828:Genetics, Population / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D014481:United States