Mobility can promote the evolution of cooperation via emergent self-assortment dynamics.

The evolution of costly cooperation, where cooperators pay a personal cost to benefit others, requires that cooperators interact more frequently with other cooperators. This condition, called positive assortment, is known to occur in spatially-structured viscous populations, where individuals typica...

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Main Authors: Jaideep Joshi, Iain D Couzin, Simon A Levin, Vishwesha Guttal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005732