Parasites are so disgusting (see also Cuckoo birds): http://qz.com/441583/lyme-disease-is-spreading-faster-than-ever-and-humans-are-partly-to-blame/ …
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Parasites promote the evolution of host complexity: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269767016_Coevolution_Drives_the_Emergence_of_Complex_Traits_and_Promotes_Evolvability …
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The green beard effect refers to hard to replicate signals that organisms recognize and cooperate on the basis of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-beard_effect …
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If you cooperate only with those who cooperate back (as with the greenbeard effect), you can be resistant to some types of parasitism.
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It's basically a way of hacking the prisoner's dilemma. Always cooperate with those with your signal, and go tit-for-tat with everyone else.
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Humans do similar things with group membership and ethnicity
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