Those with unbounded outlooks tend to play cooperatively, leading to more auspicious outcomes. Eschatological implications of the analysis, especially for thinking about the future and how it might end, are also discussed. Games plants play. The models date back to the seventies but only recently have models been developed that go hand in hand with experimental data. I discuss how accelerating fitness gain curves arise and their consequences.
Plants can optimize the fraction sons in the seeds.
The 'classical' sex ratio models are based on selection on nuclear genes. I briefly discuss genetic conflict over the sex ratio and how this may affect the large genetic variation in sexual strategies that we find in plant populations. Competition among individuals thus seems to be the key to understanding most of organismic design. In this view of the living world, conflict seems very natural and cooperation appears as a phenomenon that usually requires subtle explanation. There are problems with both approaches.