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Nature 419, 677-679 (17 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/419677a
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Evolution: The good, the bad and the lonely
Franziska Michor1 & Martin A. Nowak2
Abstract
In game theory, 'loners' who choose not to participate in fact promote cooperation between players. The dynamics of the game show phase transitions and complex phenomena reminiscent of statistical physics.
Hungarian-born genius John von Neumann, in a rare moment of humility, confessed that he considered himself a failure: according to his own ranking, he was only the third-best mathematician of the time. Yet von Neumann not only built one of the first computers and achieved breakthroughs in fields as diverse as operator theory, mathematical logic and hydrodynamics, he also created several fields of mathematics from scratch.
- Franziska Michor is in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
- Martin A. Nowak is at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA.
Correspondence to: Martin A. Nowak2 e-mail: Email: nowak@ias.edu
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