Rock is wrapped by paper, paper is cut by scissors and scissors are crushed by rock. This
simple game is popular among children and adults to decide on trivial disputes that have no …

The circulation of seed among farmers is central to agrobiodiversity conservation and
dynamics. Agrobiodiversity, the diversity of agricultural systems from genes to varieties and …

Networks form the backbone of many complex systems, ranging from the Internet to human
societies. Accordingly, not only is the range of our interactions limited and thus best …

Besides the structure of interactions within networks, also the interactions between networks
are of the outmost importance. We therefore study the outcome of the public goods game on …

Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology,
Second Edition presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological …

The genetic evolution of altruism (ie, a behavior resulting in a net reduction of the survival
and/or reproduction of an actor to benefit a recipient) once perplexed biologists because it …

Inspired by the fact that people have diverse propensities to punish wrongdoers, we study a
spatial public goods game with defectors and different types of punishing cooperators …

This article is a brief introduction to the special issue 'Evolution of cooperation'published by
the Journal of Theoretical Biology to mark its 50th anniversary. Cooperation is a favorite …

Recent research has identified interactions between networks as crucial for the outcome of
evolutionary games taking place on them. While the consensus is that interdependence …

Coevolution between strategy and network structure is established as a means to arrive at
the optimal conditions needed to resolve social dilemmas. Yet recent research has …