Organisms from microbes to humans engage in a variety of social behaviors, which affect
fitness in complex, often nonlinear ways. The question of how these behaviors evolve has …

We consider assortment of cooperators or defectors within groups by assuming that group
founders express a preference for other group members that are identical-by-type to them …

The evolution of cooperation is a pivotal area of study, essential for understanding the
survival and success of complex biological and social systems. This paper investigates the …

We investigate conditions for the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas in finite
populations with assortment of players by group founders and general payoff functions for …

Several unicellular species exist since the beginning of life on Earth, around 3.8 billion years
ago, surviving to the five mass extinction events. Humans emerged some 300000 years ago …

We investigate conditions for the evolution of cooperation in public goods games in finite
populations with assortment of players by group founders and general payoff functions for …

I read a very interesting new paper by Padget et al.(2023), published late last year in
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The paper describes an experimental study of guppies' …