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    Correlation favours cooperation in the evolutionary Priso... — Carmelics
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    Correlation favours cooperation in the evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma.

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    • 1.In the evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma, average fitness of a strategy depends on the probability of meeting each other possible strategy.
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    • 2.Cooperators whose probability of meeting other cooperators is high do better than defectors whose probability of meeting other defectors is high.
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    • 1.Correlation structures in evolutionary models are externally imposed parameters, not endogenous outcomes of strategic interaction.
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    • 2.When assortment mechanisms are themselves subject to evolutionary pressure, defectors can evolve strategies to exploit correlating structures.
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    • 3.Therefore, correlation does not robustly favour cooperation unless the correlation mechanism is shielded from defector exploitation—a condition rarely satisfied.
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    • 1.Skyrms and Kitcher acknowledge that positive assortment can bootstrap cooperation, but this requires pre-existing population structure that begs the explanatory question.
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    • 2.The claim conflates a fitness advantage under stipulated correlation with a general evolutionary tendency toward cooperation, which Maynard Smith's ESS analysis does not support.
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    However, introducing the possibility of correlation radically changes the picture. We now need to compute the average fitness of a strategy given its probability of meeting each other possible strategy. In the evolutionary PD, cooperators whose probability of meeting other cooperators is high do better than defectors whose probability of meeting other defectors is high. Correlation thus favours cooperation.
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