A computational approach to the evolution of competitive strategyFootnote*

We acknowledge the help of David Krackhardt, Kathleen Carley, Ann van Ackere and two anonymous reviewers. This work was partially supported by the Danish Social Science Research Council. The program used for the simulation was written in Turbo Pascal Version 7.0. A version of the program can be obtained by writing to any of the authors.

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