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This paper has not yet been published. I have been meaning to work on it some more and send it off.

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ABSTRACT:
William Hamilton developed the biological theory of kin selection before game theory became familiar to biologists. Thus he implicitly confined his analysis to a rather special subclass of games, with linear structure. This paper shows that while Hamilton's rule does not apply to a more general class of games, there is a useful generalization that does apply. This paper also generalizes results in my 1995 AER paper on sibling interaction from symmetric two-player games to multiplayer games that may be asymmetric.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Ted Bergstrom, "Evolution of Behavior in Family Games" (March 1, 2000). Department of Economics, UCSB. Ted Bergstrom. Paper 2000A.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/2000A