Martin A. Nowak

Selected Publications


    Dreber A, DG Rand, D Fudenberg, MA Nowak (2008). Winners don't punish. Nature 452: 348-351. News: Daily Telegraph, NPR, New York Times, Boston Globe / AP, Bloomberg.

    Lieberman E, JB Michel, J Jackson, T Tang, MA Nowak (2007). Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language. Nature 449: 713-716. (PDF) Front cover. News articles: Nature News, Harvard University Gazette, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, Scientific American, Telegraph. Nature Correspondence.

    Hauert C, A Traulsen, H Brandt, MA Nowak, K Sigmund (2007). Via freedom to coercion: The emergence of costly punishment. Science 316: 1905-1907. (PDF) (supplementary information)

    Nowak MA (2006). Five rules for the evolution of cooperation. Science 314: 1560-1563. (PDF)

    Nowak MA (2006). Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Excerpt, Nature review, Science review, R.R. Hawkins Award)

    Ohtsuki H, C Hauert, E Lieberman, MA Nowak (2006). A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks. Nature 441: 502-505. (PDF) (supplementary information)

    Lieberman E, C Hauert, MA Nowak (2005). Evolutionary dynamics on graphs. Nature 433: 312-316. (PDF)

    Michor F, TP Hughes, Y Iwasa, S Branford, NP Shah, CL Sawyers, MA Nowak (2005). Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukemia. Nature 435: 1267-1270. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, K Sigmund (2005). Evolution of indirect reciprocity. Nature 437: 1291-1298. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, F Michor, Y Iwasa (2004). Evolutionary dynamics of tumor suppressor gene inactivation. P Natl Acad Sci USA 101: 10635-10638. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, A Sasaki, C Taylor, D Fudenberg (2004). Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary stability in finite populations. Nature 428: 646-650. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, K Sigmund (2004). Evolutionary dynamics of biological games. Science 303: 793-799. (PDF)

    Wei X, JM Decker, S Wang, H Hui, JC Kappes, W Xiaoyun, JF Salazar, MG Salazar, JM Kilby, MS Saag, NL Komarova, MA Nowak, BH Hahn, PD Kwong, GM Shaw (2003). Antibody neutralization and escape by HIV-1. Nature 422: 307-312. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, NL Komarova, P Niyogi (2002). Computational and evolutionary aspects of language. Nature 417: 611-617. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, NL Komarova, A Sengupta, PF Jallepalli, IM Shih, B Vogelstein, C Lengauer (2002). The role of chromosomal instability in tumor initiation. P Natl Acad Sci USA 99: 16226-16231. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, NL Komarova, P Niyogi (2001). Evolution of universal grammar. Science 291: 114-118. (PDF)

    Nowak M, RM May (2000). Virus Dynamics: Mathematical Principles of Immunology and Virology. Oxford University Press.

    Nowak MA, KM Page, K Sigmund (2000). Fairness versus reason in the ultimatum game. Science 289: 1773-1775. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, JB Plotkin, VAA Jansen (2000). The evolution of syntactic communication. Nature 404: 495-498. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, D Krakauer (1999). The evolution of language. P Natl Acad Sci USA 96: 8028-8033. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, K Sigmund (1998). Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring. Nature 393: 573-577. (PDF)

    Bonhoeffer S, RM May, GM Shaw, MA Nowak (1997). Virus dynamics and drug therapy. P Natl Acad Sci USA 94: 6971-6976. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, MC Boerlijst, J Cooke, J Maynard Smith (1997). Evolution of genetic redundancy. Nature 388: 167-171. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, CRM Bangham (1996). Population dynamics of immune responses to persistent viruses. Science 272: 74-79. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, S Bonhoeffer, AM Hill, R Boehme, HC Thomas, H McDade (1996). Viral dynamics in hepatitis B virus infection. P Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 4398-4402. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, RM May, RE Phillips, S Rowland-Jones, DG Lalloo, S McAdam, P Klenerman, B Köppe, K Sigmund, CRM Bangham, AJ McMichael (1995). Antigenic oscillations and shifting immunodominance in HIV-1 infections. Nature 375: 606-611. (PDF)

    Wei X, SK Ghosh, ME Taylor, VA Johnson, EA Emini, P Deutsch, JD Lifson, S Bonhoeffer, MA Nowak, BH Hahn, MS Saag, GM Shaw (1995). Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Nature 373: 117-122. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, RM May (1994). Superinfection and the evolution of parasite virulence. Proc R Soc B 255: 81-89. (PDF)

    Tilman D, RM May, CL Lehman, MA Nowak (1994). Habitat destruction and the extinction debt. Nature 371: 65-66. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, K Sigmund (1993). A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit for tat in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. Nature 364: 56-58. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, RM May (1992). Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature 359: 826-829. (PDF)

    Nowak MA , K Sigmund (1992). Tit for tat in heterogeneous populations. Nature 355: 250-253. (PDF)

    Nowak MA, RM Anderson, AR McLean, TFW Wolfs, J Goudsmit, RM May (1991). Antigenic diversity thresholds and the development of AIDS. Science 254: 963-369. (PDF)