# Martin Nowak
**Domain:** Evolutionary Dynamics / Mathematics / Cooperation
**Doc Type:** Person Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Darwinian Evolution|evolution]], [[Cooperation]], [[Game Theory]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
**Martin Nowak** is a mathematical biologist whose work studies evolutionary dynamics, cooperation, language, viruses and cancer.
## Corpus Context
Nowak’s work helps formalize the transition from competition alone to systems in which cooperation becomes an evolutionary mechanism. That is central to the corpus’s account of human-machine coevolution and superorganism formation.
## Team Leela Context
He appears in [[Team Leela]] as an analytic intellectual intersection.
## Backlinks
[[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[Team Leela]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [Harvard — Martin Nowak](https://sites.harvard.edu/martin-nowak/)