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Science 29 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5833, pp. 1858 - 1859
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144339
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Perspectives

BEHAVIOR:
A Narrow Road to Cooperation

Robert Boyd and Sarah Mathew

A new model of collective action shows how socially beneficial punishment can arise and evolve.

The authors are in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. E-mail: rboyd{at}anthro.ucla.edu

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