Article ID: | iaor2000213 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 398 |
Issue: | 6726 |
Start Page Number: | 367 |
End Page Number: | 368 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1999 |
Journal: | Nature |
Authors: | Nowak Martin A., Sigmund Karl |
Keywords: | game theory |
The prisoner's dilemma is a classic of game theory in which acting for individual advantage is pitted against acting for collective benefit. An example has been identified among clones of a virus that infects bacteria.