Evolution of Cooperation

Nature has produced cooperating communities in virtually every environment independently. This suggests that there are very simple, elegant rules that sustain evolutionarily stable cooperating populations. The goal of this paper is to shed light on some of the simplest known models that yield such cooperation. With the advent of the internet a new arena for human interaction was born. The full potential of cooperation in this new frontier has not been realized; the hope is to tame this wilderness into a safe haven where cooperation can thrive.