But this is only one example. The more you think about it, the more you realize that life is riddled with Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma games, not just human life but animal and plant life too. Plant life? Yes, why not? Remember that we are not talking about conscious strategies (though at times we might be), but about strategies in the ‘Maynard Smithian’ sense, strategies of the kind that genes might preprogram. Later we shall meet plants, various animals and even bacteria, all playing the game of Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. Meanwhile, let’s explore more fully what is so important about
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