Please write about these questions like a small paragraphanswering he questions below:
Do you think that microbes can have cooperative traits? Why orwhy not?
Think about the RNA viruses that evolve as if they were playingthe prisoner's dilemma game. What if you did not know about theprisoner's dilemma and you were given the data on fitness atdifferent starting frequencies in the paper presented. How wouldyou interpret those results? Is it useful to think about the databy thinking about the prisoner's dilemma? If this was a virusinfecting a human, would you hope that the viruses defect orcooperate? Why? What might you do to try to encouragedefection?What is the difference between group and individualselection? Do you think natural selection operates at the level ofa group? Why? Why do some scientists think that is problematic?What is kin selection, and how is it expected to affect thepersistence of cooperative traits?
How does spatial structure affect the stability ofcooperation?
