Literature covered: early 2000s to late 2017 Bacteria frequently exchange metabolites with
other micro-and macro-organisms. In these often obligate cross-feeding interactions, primary …

Evolutionary game theory is a truly interdisciplinary subject that goes well beyond the limits
of biology. Mathematical minds get hooked up in simple models for evolution and often …

Why should you help a competitor? Why should you contribute to the public good if free
riders reap the benefits of your generosity? Cooperation in a competitive world is a …

Eusociality, in which some individuals reduce their own lifetime reproductive potential to
raise the offspring of others, underlies the most advanced forms of social organization and …

Convergent developments across social scientific disciplines provide evidence that ritual is
a psychologically prepared, culturally inherited, behavioral trademark of our species. We …

Consider a networked evolutionary game (NEG). According to its strategy updating rule, a
fundamental evolutionary equation (FEE) for each node is proposed, which is based on …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

In-group favoritism is a central aspect of human behavior. People often help members of
their own group more than members of other groups. Here we propose a mathematical …

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 …