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Group Selection and Team Sports

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Journal of Bioeconomics

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Team sports offer direct analogies with evolutionary explanations of the conflict between individual and group objectives. These analogies are discussed, and falsifiable hypotheses are suggested.

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  1. Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Buchanan House, MSN 1E6, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, U.S.A.

    James M. Buchanan

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Buchanan, J.M. Group Selection and Team Sports. Journal of Bioeconomics 2, 1–7 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010082906001

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