• DOI:10.1038/246015a0
Corpus ID: 4224989

The Logic of Animal Conflict

@article{Smith1973TheLO,
  title={The Logic of Animal Conflict},
  author={J. Maynard Smith and G. R. Price},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1973},
  volume={246},
  pages={15-18}
}

J. Maynard Smith, G. R. Price

Published 1973

Economics

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Conflicts between animals of the same species usually are of “limited war” type, not causing serious injury. This is often explained as due to group or species selection for behaviour benefiting the species rather than individuals. Game theory and computer simulation analyses show, however, that a “limited war” strategy benefits individual animals as well as the species.