This academic article, published in Theoretical Population Biology, explores a two-player iterated survival game where the payoff is survival over multiple steps. The study examines how cooperation can evolve in a population through repeated interactions, even when individual steps may favor non-cooperative strategies. The authors use mathematical models to analyze the conditions under which cooperation becomes favored as the number of iterations increases. The paper discusses different types of games, including the Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag Hunt, and Hawk-Dove games, and how these can transform into Harmony Games under certain conditions. The study is grounded in evolutionary game theory and provides insights into the evolution of cooperation in biological systems.
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