. >> which is much closer to life, and that strategy is called pavlov.r-correct. >> so it can take care of this uncertainty. >> and the intuition there is that if you defect against me, i've lost, so i should shift. and so i shift back to "cooperate." and then you see cooperation in the last round, and you cooperate again. and then since -- and then you're winning, you stay on that strategy. >> so you essentially want to learn from your mistakes. >> exactly. >> so nash was actually solving this as a pure math problem, but in fact it has an evolutionary context, is that right? >> that's right. so in 1973, an english evolutionary biologist, john maynard smith, rediscovered the nash equilibrium and called it an evolutionary stable strategy. and he was particularly interested in what limits aggression. and it turns out that if you write down a simple game, you can show why it's often the case that more passive, restrained strategies evolve. and the game that he wrote down was called the hawk-dove game. >> imagine we have two populations, one aggressive and o