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Long-term evolutionary processes can strongly influence common-pool resource conservation by generating new traits or behaviours that modify the feedback between population strategies and the resource state. Here we develop an…

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The interdependence between an individual strategy decision and the resulting change of environmental state is often a subtle process. Feedback-evolving games have been a prevalent framework for studying such feedback in well-mixed…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Qiushuang Wang , Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki

Cooperation often depends on individuals avoiding exploitation and interacting preferentially with other cooperators. We explore how context-dependent migration influences the evolution of cooperation in spatially structured populations.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-03 Dhaker Kroumi

We study the combined influence of selection and random fluctuations on the evolutionary dynamics of two-strategy ("cooperation" and "defection") games in populations comprising cooperation facilitators. The latter are individuals that…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-11-13 Mauro Mobilia

In Evolutionary game theory the payoffs are typically fixed or shaped by external environmental variables. Here, we introduce an endogenous-feedback model in which the game played coevolves directly with the population state: the payoff…

How cooperation can evolve between players is an unsolved problem of biology. Here we use Hamiltonian dynamics of models of the Ising type to describe populations of cooperating and defecting players to show that the equilibrium fraction of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-27 Christoph Adami , Arend Hintze

Complex social behaviors lie at the heart of many of the challenges facing evolutionary biology, sociology, economics, and beyond. For evolutionary biologists in particular the question is often how such behaviors can arise \textit{de novo}…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-18 Alexander J. Stewart , Joshua B. Plotkin

Cooperation is a difficult proposition in the face of Darwinian selection. Those that defect have an evolutionary advantage over cooperators who should therefore die out. However, spatial structure enables cooperators to survive through the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-02 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The evolution of cooperation has remained an important problem in evolutionary theory and social sciences. In this regard, a curious question is why consistent cooperative and defective personalities exist and if they serve a role in the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-14 Mohammad Salahshour

Addressing both natural and societal challenges requires collective cooperation. Studies on collective-risk social dilemmas have shown that individual decisions are influenced by the perceived risk of collective failure. However, existing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-26 Lichen Wang , Shijia Hua , Yuyuan Liu , Liang Zhang , Linjie Liu , Attila Szolnoki

Cooperation within asymmetric populations has garnered significant attention in evolutionary games. This paper explores cooperation evolution in populations with weak and strong players, using a game model where players choose between…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-12 Hao Guo , Chen Shen , Rongcheng Zou , Pin Tao , Yuanchun Shi , Zhen Wang , Junliang Xing

The game interactions among individuals in nature are often uncertain and dynamically evolving, significantly influencing the persistence of cooperation. However, it remains a formidable challenge to effectively characterize these dynamic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bin Pi , Minyu Feng , Liang-Jian Deng , Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki

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

Understanding the evolution of cooperation in multiplayer games is of vital significance for natural and social systems. An important challenge is that group interactions often leads to nonlinear synergistic effects. However, previous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenqiang Zhu , Xin Wang , Chaoqian Wang , Longzhao Liu , Jiaxin Hu , Zhiming Zheng , Shaoting Tang , Hongwei Zheng , Jin Dong

Understanding the emergence and stability of cooperation in public goods games is important due to its applications in fields such as biology, economics, and social science. However, a gap remains in comprehending how mutations, both…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Nataliya A. Balabanova , Manh Hong Duong , The Anh Han

Dynamics of a social population is analyzed taking into account some physical constraints on individual behavior and decision making abilities. The model, based on Evolutionary Game Theory, predicts that a population has to pass through a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Alex Feigel

Ecology and evolution are inherently linked, and studying a mathematical model that considers both holds promise of insightful discoveries related to the dynamics of cooperation. In the present article, we use the prisoner's dilemma (PD)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-10 Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Srilena Kundu , Jeet Banerjee , Matjaž Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Evolutionary game theory is a powerful framework for studying evolution in populations of interacting individuals. A common assumption in evolutionary game theory is that interactions are symmetric, which means that the players are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-04 Alex McAvoy , Christoph Hauert

Evolutionary game theory has impacted many fields of research by providing a mathematical framework for studying the evolution and maintenance of social and moral behaviors. This success is owed in large part to the demonstration that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-03 José F. Fontanari

The evolution of cooperation has been a perennial problem for evolutionary biology because cooperation is undermined by selfish cheaters (or "free riders") that profit from cooperators but do not invest any resources themselves. In a purely…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-12-17 Arend Hintze , Christoph Adami