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Cooperation is ubiquitous across all levels of biological systems ranging from microbial communities to human societies. It, however, seemingly contradicts the evolutionary theory, since cooperators are exploited by free-riders and thus are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-23 Yunming Xiao , Bin Wu

Heterogeneity in individual characteristics and behaviour is a fundamental property of complex dynamical systems. While previous studies on evolutionary dynamics of strategies evolution in various systems have predominantly focused on the…

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Recent empirical studies suggest that heavy-tailed distributions of human activities are universal in real social dynamics [Muchnik, \emph{et al.}, Sci. Rep. \textbf{3}, 1783 (2013)]. On the other hand, community structure is ubiquitous in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-14 Zhi-Xi Wu , Zhihai Rong , Han-Xin Yang

The evolution of cooperation often depends upon population structure, yet nearly all models of cooperation implicitly assume that this structure remains static. This is a simplifying assumption, because most organisms possess genetic traits…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-08-03 Simon T. Powers , Alexandra S. Penn , Richard A. Watson

The rate of biological evolution depends on the fixation probability and on the fixation time of new mutants. Intensive research has focused on identifying population structures that augment the fixation probability of advantageous mutants.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-11 Josef Tkadlec , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin A. Nowak

Without contributing, defectors take more benefit from social resources than cooperators which is the reflection of a specific character of individuals. However, natural physical mechanisms of our society promote cooperation. Thus, in the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-16 Bijan Sarkar

Cooperation is central to the organization of complex biological and social systems. Most theoretical models assume homogeneous environments; in reality, populations inhabit spatially varying landscapes in which the payoffs of cooperation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 Amir Kargaran , Kamran Kaveh , Krishnendu Chatterjee

Whether or not cooperation is favored over defection in evolutionary games can be assigned by structure coefficients for any arrangement of cooperators and defectors on any network modeled as a regular graph. We study how these structure…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-14 Hendrik Richter

We study fixation probabilities for the Moran stochastic process for the evolution of a population with three or more types of individuals and frequency-dependent fitnesses. Contrarily to the case of populations with two types of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-26 Eliza M. Ferreira , Armando G. M. Neves

The complete cooperation and the complete defection are two typical strategies considered in evolutionary games in many previous works. However, in real life, strategies of individuals are full of variety rather than only two complete ones.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-03 Linya Huang , Wenchen Han

Different evolutionary models are known to make disparate predictions for the success of an invading mutant in some situations. For example, some evolutionary mechanics lead to amplification of selection in structured populations, while…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Francisco Herrerías-Azcué , Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri , Tobias Galla

Classical studies on aspiration-based dynamics suggest that a dissatisfied individual changes strategy without taking into account the success of others. This promotes defection spreading. The imitation-based dynamics allow individuals to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-25 Kroumi Dhaker

Cooperation is fundamental to the functioning of biological and social systems in both human and animal populations, with the structure of interactions playing a crucial role. Previous studies have used networks to describe interactions and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-24 Dhruv Mittal , Flávio L. Pinheiro , Vítor V. Vasconcelos

Cooperation is beneficial for the species as a whole, but, at the level of an individual, defection pays off. Natural selection is then expected to favor defectors and eliminate cooperation. This prediction is in stark contrast with the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-04-30 Kirill S. Korolev

In evolutionary processes, population structure has a substantial effect on natural selection. Here, we analyze how motion of individuals affects constant selection in structured populations. Motion is relevant because it leads to changes…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-10 Madison S. Krieger , Alex McAvoy , Martin A. Nowak

Population structure can be modelled by evolutionary graphs, which can have a substantial, but very subtle influence on the fate of the arising mutants. Individuals are located on the nodes of these graphs, competing with each other to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-31 Marius Möller , Laura Hindersin , Arne Traulsen

In the framework of the paradigmatic prisoner's dilemma, we investigate the evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas in the presence of "cooperation facilitators". In our model, cooperators and defectors interact as in the classical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-08-02 Mauro Mobilia

Cooperation is a major factor in the evolution of human societies. The structure of human social networks, which affects the dynamics of cooperation and other interpersonal phenomena, have common structural signatures. One of these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Babak Fotouhi , Naghmeh Momeni , Benjamin Allen , Martin A. Nowak

We study the evolution of cooperation in structured populations within popular models of social dilemmas, whereby simple coevolutionary rules are introduced that may enhance players abilities to enforce their strategy on the opponent.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-02-16 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The evolution and long-term sustenance of cooperation has consistently piqued scholarly interest across the disciplines of evolutionary biology and social sciences. Previous theoretical and experimental studies on collective risk social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-23 Shijia Hua , Zitong Hui , Linjie Liu