Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Game theory has been extensively studied and applied in both the field of business and
animal behavior. Similarly, in aquaculture, research and applications in these areas are in …

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 …

Cooperation and competition are often viewed as incompatible, antagonistic forces, thus are
operationalized as two extremes on a continuum. However, they can coexist and even …

When one individual helps another, it benefits the recipient and may also gain a reputation
for being cooperative. This may induce others to favour the helper in subsequent …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

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 …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

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 …

Direct reciprocity is a powerful mechanism for the evolution of cooperation on the basis of
repeated interactions,,–. It requires that interacting individuals are sufficiently equal, such …