Reciprocal cooperation between unrelated rats depends on cost to donor and benefit to recipient

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although evolutionary models of cooperation build on the intuition that costs of the donor and benefits to the receiver are the most general fundamental parameters, it is largely unknown how they affect the decision of animals to coo...

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Main Authors: Schneeberger Karin, Dietz Melanie, Taborsky Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-03-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/12/41