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 …

Interactions among living organisms, from bacteria colonies to human societies, are
inherently more complex than interactions among particles and non-living matter. Group …

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 …

Up to now, there have been a great number of studies that demonstrate the effect of spatial
topology on the promotion of cooperation dynamics (namely, the so-called “spatial …

The fact that individuals will most likely behave differently in different situations begets the
introduction of conditional strategies. Inspired by this, we study the evolution of cooperation …

A collective-risk social dilemma implies that personal endowments will be lost if
contributions to the common pool within a group are too small. Failure to reach the collective …

Collective actions, from city marathons to labor strikes, are often mass-driven and subject to
the snowball effect. Motivated by this, we study evolutionary advantages of conditional …

We study the evolution of cooperation in public goods games on the square lattice, focusing
on the effects that are brought about by different sizes of groups where individuals collect …

Using reputation and payoff fusion information as a strategy update rule has been
demonstrated to improve the level of cooperation. Individuals with relatively high reputations …

It is well-known that individual diversity is a typical feature within the collective population.
To model this kind of characteristics, we propose an evolutionary model of public goods …