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Science 13 October 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5490, p. 281
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5490.281
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BEHAVIOR:
Playing for Keeps

A review by Karl Sigmund and Martin A. Nowak

Game Theory Evolving A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction
Herbert Gintis
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000. 567 pp. $55, £35. ISBN 0-691-00942-2. Paper, $29.95, £18.95. ISBN 0-691-00943-0.

Gintis, an economist, offers game theory as a tool kit for exploring behavior in a wide range of social situations. His text shows how the approach has challenged the concept of rationality.
Karl Sigmund is at the Institute for Mathematics, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: karl.sigmund{at}univie.ac.at. Martin Nowak is at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. E-mail: nowak{at}ias.edu

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