Evolution of Cooperation

Post titled "Evolution of Signaling in Artificial Agents" on the Panda's Thumb (PT) about evolving cooperation in robots which references a piece at The Loom titled "Evolving Robotspeak". Basically the work is about evolving neural nets in robots with light and infrared sensors and engendering communication through competition for food. The source paper is titled "Evolving conditions for the emergence of communication in robots" (2007).
The original PT article also highlights an article last year on the biological evolution of cooperation titled "The Evolution of Cooperation: Hawks, Doves, Ravens and Starlings", which references an interesting paper in nature on evolving cooperation with neural nets in simple 2D landscapes titled "Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles" (2006).

Fun stuff to read about, enjoy!