Cheating favors extinction
Secret rendezvous: Geladas conceal monkeying around from leader males
Humans who cheat on a loved one aren't the only ones to change their behavior to avoid discovery.
Feb 13, 2013
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Cooperators can coexist with cheaters, as long as there is room to grow
Microbes exhibit bewildering diversity even in relatively tight living quarters. But when a population is a mix of cooperators, microbes that share resources, and cheaters, those that selfishly take yet give nothing back, ...
Feb 01, 2013
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Golden algae: They hunt, they kill, they cheat
Cheating slime mold gets the upper hand
A 'cheater' mutation (chtB) in Dictyostelium discoideum, a free living slime mould able to co-operate as social organism when food is scarce, allows the cheater strain to exploit its social partner, finds ...
Jan 08, 2013
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It pays to cooperate
Many species exhibit cooperative survival strategies—for example, sharing food or alerting other individuals when a predator is nearby. However, there are almost always freeloaders in the population who will take advantage ...
Nov 13, 2012
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Scientists focus on quorum sensing to better understand bacteria
The relatively new field in microbiology that focuses on quorum sensing has been making strides in understanding how bacteria communicate and cooperate. Quorum sensing describes the bacterial communication between cells that ...
Oct 11, 2012
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Nothing to sneeze at: Scientists find cheating ragweed behaves better with its kin
Cheating. Conflict. Competition. It may sound like a soap opera but this is the complex life of the despised ragweed plant.
Oct 01, 2012
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In amoeba world, cheating doesn't pay
How cheating ants give themselves away
In ant society, workers normally give up reproducing themselves to care for their queen's offspring, who are their brothers and sisters. When workers try to cheat and have their own kids in the queen's presence, their peers ...
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Jan 08, 2009
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