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Notes to Biological Altruism
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1. Though if each individual interacts with only one or a few other individuals throughout its lifetime, reciprocal altruism may evolve without the ability for individual recognition. See Axelrod and Hamilton (1981) and Maynard Smith (1982) for discussion of this point.

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Notes to Biological Altruism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy