Reply to: Broad definitions of enforcement are unhelpful for understanding evolutionary mechanisms of cooperation

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¹ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Department of Zoology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. kevin.foster@zoo.ox.ac.uk.

^# Contributed equally.

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J Arvid Ågren et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;4(3):323.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1112-y. Epub 2020 Feb 10.

¹ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Department of Zoology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. kevin.foster@zoo.ox.ac.uk.

^# Contributed equally.

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Enforcement is central to the evolution of cooperation.
Ågren JA, Davies NG, Foster KR. Ågren JA, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 Jul;3(7):1018-1029. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0907-1. Epub 2019 Jun 28. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019. PMID: 31239554 Review.
Broad definitions of enforcement are unhelpful for understanding evolutionary mechanisms of cooperation.
Engelhardt SC, Taborsky M. Engelhardt SC, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Mar;4(3):322. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-1088-7. Epub 2020 Feb 10. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020. PMID: 32042117 No abstract available.

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