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Darwin Vs. Survival

At first, it was nothing more than a game. Board games, like chess and backgammon, which have been around for centuries, were simply for fun. Even when card and dice games lured professional gamblers, most people still played for leisure.  Then came professional sports, and games became big business. Nonetheless, it was all part of the entertainment industry. But one day the game left the living room and the baseball field and entered into the research labs of mathematicians and theoretical economists. 

“Game Theory”  had been largely unnoticed until one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, John von Neumann, realized that the mathematical models used in economics did not mirror the way decisions are made in the…

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