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    Challenges→There is a threshold effect at 33% such that Fairmen's population proportion determines whether Fairmen tend toward extinction or fixation.

    Brian Skyrms's lattice simulations in 'Evolution of the Social Contract' show Fairmen can achieve fixation from far below 33% when agents interact with neighbors rather than random strangers.

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    Brian Skyrms(the philosopher being cited)
    A contemporary American philosopher who studies how social cooperation and game theory can explain human behavior and evolution.
    Evolution of the Social Contract(the specific philosophical work referenced)
    A book by Skyrms that explores how cooperation rules and agreements between people could have developed over time through evolutionary logic.
    Fairmen(Dynamic resource-division game model)
    Agents in the resource-division game who employ a fair-division strategy
    Lattice simulations(the research method Skyrms used)
    Computer models where agents are arranged in a grid pattern (like a checkerboard) and can only interact with neighbors next to them, rather than everyone at once.
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    fixation(Evolutionary game theory)
    The state in which a strategy comes to dominate the entire population.

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