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 …

Prevalence of cooperation within groups of selfish individuals is puzzling in that it contradicts
with the basic premise of natural selection. Favoring players with higher fitness, the latter is …

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that
transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in …

Game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from biology to
behavioral sciences to economics. In its evolutionary form and especially when the …

A fundamental aspect of all biological systems is cooperation. Cooperative interactions are
required for many levels of biological organization ranging from single cells to groups of …

To explain the evolution of cooperation by natural selection has been a major goal of
biologists since Darwin. Cooperators help others at a cost to themselves, while defectors …

Understanding the emergence of cooperation is a fundamental problem in evolutionary
biology. Evolutionary game theory, has become a powerful framework with which to …

Evolutionary game dynamics is one of the most fruitful frameworks for studying evolution in
different disciplines, from Biology to Economics. Within this context, the approach of choice …

Understanding the mechanisms that can lead to the evolution of cooperation through natural
selection is a core problem in biology. Among the various attempts at constructing a theory …

The evolution of cooperation in network-structured populations has been a major focus of
theoretical work in recent years. When players are embedded in fixed networks, cooperators …