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... individual to use his own car . Another important non - zero - sum game is what Garrett Hardin has called ' The Tragedy of the Commons ' . Suppose a community possesses a piece of common land , on which anyone is free to graze his ...
... individual to use his own car . Another important non - zero - sum game is what Garrett Hardin has called ' The Tragedy of the Commons ' . Suppose a community possesses a piece of common land , on which anyone is free to graze his ...
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... individual's life as a butterfly , flitting about from flower to flower . In both these cases we find that one and the same organism may switch completely from one appearance and type of behaviour to another when the circumstances ...
... individual's life as a butterfly , flitting about from flower to flower . In both these cases we find that one and the same organism may switch completely from one appearance and type of behaviour to another when the circumstances ...
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... individual in the population can be regarded as a sample – a handful as it were of genes taken out of this gene pool . Now , the remarkable thing is that by no means all the different genes in an organism come to expression under normal ...
... individual in the population can be regarded as a sample – a handful as it were of genes taken out of this gene pool . Now , the remarkable thing is that by no means all the different genes in an organism come to expression under normal ...
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