By-product mutualism, Tit-for-Tat reciprocity and cooperative predator inspection: a reply to Connor
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A reply to Connor's commentary on by-product mutualism argues that Tit-for-Tat reciprocity and by-product mutualism are mutually exclusive. If the inspecting fish has the prisoner's dilemma by-product mutualism fails, and the Tit-for-Tat reciprocity does not work outside the prisoner's dilemma. By-product mutualism can work only in large groups, while smaller groups will show a Tit-for-Tat reciprocity. Cooperative predator inspection is not an example of by-product mutualism.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1996
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Tit for Tat, by-product mutualism and predator inspection: a reply to Connor
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A reply to Richard C. Connors's commentary on by-product mutualism argues that by-product mutualism fails to explain the case of predator inspection in fish and the Tit for Tat hypothesis. Experimental evidence now available suggests that fishes are indeed playing tit for tat. Information transfer is also better explained by tit for tat than by a by-product mutualism. The history and intent of prior studies have been wrongly analyzed by Connor.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1996
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Cooperation and the Prisoner's Dilemma: towards testable models of mutualism versus reciprocity
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Recent studies on the evolution of cooperation in nature have tended to both complicate and oversimplify the differences between reciprocity and mutualism. The issues of model testability are clarified and the difference between by-product altruism and reciprocal altruism is discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1997
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