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Over the last 30 years Nowak and his colleagues have created and investigated a series of evolutionary games, each based on how populations interact in the real world. To his surprise, cooperation has emerged as the most successful behaviour in game after game. And this isn't a question of moral judgment, this is all judged in the cold hard terms of the mathematics of evolution.

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Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza theoretically predict, in a scientific study, that contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals. These researchers have mathematically examined what occurs when groups of people who behave as the experiments say have to decide whether or not to cooperate, and how the existence of cooperation, globally or in the group, depends on the structure of the interactions.