Abstract
The development of methods to identify prime numbers spans centuries and includes models of physical and biological systems that spot primes. This paper adds to the latter research genre by reporting a prisoner's dilemma model that identifies prime numbers greater than 2. Albeit containing unconventional features and arguable assumptions, the model nonetheless confirms a previously hypothesized connection between prime numbers and the cross-disciplinary puzzle of how cooperation evolved. In a companion paper (part II), the features and assumptions of the analytic model reported here are explored in a finite-population, computational model.
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