Why would natural selection favor the prevalence of cooperation within the groups of selfish
individuals? A fruitful framework to address this question is evolutionary game theory, the …

Cooperative behavior, the costly provision of benefits to others, is common across all
domains of life. This review article discusses cooperative behavior in the microbial world …

One of the most distinguishing abilities that human beings display is the ability of turning
almost everything into a clue to make a problem affordable in relation to what one knows …

Social interactions often have major fitness consequences, but little is known about how
specific interacting phenotypes affect the strength of natural selection. Social influences on …

War, in human and animal societies, can be extremely costly but can also offer significant
benefits to the victorious group. We might expect groups to go into battle when the potential …

Abstract Evolutionary Game Theory studies the spreading of strategies in populations. An
important question of the area concerns the possibility that certain population structures can …

Understanding how to enhance cooperation and coordination in distributed, open, and
dynamic multiagent systems has been a grand challenge across disciplines. Knowledge …

We study the interplay of population growth and evolutionary dynamics using a stochastic
model based on birth and death events. In contrast to the common assumption of an …

In a world of hardening borders, nations may deprive themselves of enjoying the benefits of
cooperative immigrants. Here we analyze the effect of efficient cooperative immigrants on a …

Cooperative behaviour is widespread in nature, even though cooperating individuals always
run the risk of being exploited by free-riders. Population structure effectively promotes …