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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — President Barack Obama has given the nation's highest honor for achievement in science and technology to a University of Michigan political science and public policy professor.
Obama presented Robert Axelrod with the National Medal of Science on Thursday during a ceremony at the White House. The president selected him and nine others last month for the medal.
Axelrod wrote "The Evolution of Cooperation," which deals with de-escalating conflict. University officials say his work draws on evolutionary biology, psychology and artificial intelligence and his interests include international security.
Axelrod also has received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and has been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
The annually awarded medal was created in 1959 and administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation.
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