Reciprocal altruism (Evolutionary biology 🧬)

In evolutionary biology, reciprocal altruism is a behaviour whereby an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness, with the expectation that the other organism will act in a similar manner at a later time. The concept was initially developed by Rob...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism

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Reciprocal altruism - Wikipedia

@SebastianSchreiber if you teach #evolution of #cooperation and #ReciprocalAltruism, my students like this online game: https://ncase.me/trust/. We go through it together in class.
The Evolution of Trust

an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other