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Game theory is to the behavioral universe what the telescope was to Galileo, or calculus to Newton—a powerful new tool for probing previously unsolvable problems. Modeling the agency and behavioral contingency that are key in biology, but don’t exist in physics, required new logic. Using these “behavioral telescopes” to scan for patterns in distant effects, scientists are discovering an evolutionary ethics that increases social productivity - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/06/05/behavioral-telescope-shows-how-cooperation-works/