Evolutionary game selection creates cooperative environments
arXiv:2311.11128 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.110.014306
Abstract
The emergence of collective cooperation in competitive environments is a well-known phenomenon in biology, economics, and social systems. While most evolutionary game models focus on the evolution of strategies for a fixed game, how strategic decisions coevolve with the environment has so far mostly been overlooked. Here, we consider a game selection model where not only the strategies but also the game can change over time following evolutionary principles. Our results show that coevolutionary dynamics of games and strategies can induce novel collective phenomena, fostering the emergence of cooperative environments. When the model is taken on structured populations the architecture of the interaction network can significantly amplify pro-social behavior, with a critical role played by network heterogeneity and the presence of clustered groups of similar players, distinctive features observed in real-world populations. By unveiling the link between the evolution of strategies and games for different structured populations, our model sheds new light on the origin of social dilemmas ubiquitously observed in real-world social systems.
arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures
References in corpus (24)
- Emergence of scaling in random networks
- Evolutionary games on graphs
- Evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game on a square lattice
- Statistical physics of human cooperation
- Evolutionary dynamics of group interactions on structured populations: A review
- Dynamical Organization of Cooperation in Complex Topologies
- Quasi-stationary distributions and population processes
- Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions
- Different perceptions of social dilemmas: Evolutionary multigames in structured populations
- Visibility of minorities in social networks
- The evolution of trust and trustworthiness
- Evolutionary mixed games in structured populations: Cooperation and the benefits of heterogeneity
- Explosive cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks
- Evolutionary game model of group choice dilemmas on hypergraphs
- An Evolutionary Game With the Game Transitions Based on the Markov Process
- Seasonal payoff variations and the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas
- Sampling methods for the quasistationary regime of epidemic processes on regular and complex networks
- Unfair and Anomalous Evolutionary Dynamics from Fluctuating Payoffs
- Quasi-stationary distributions for randomly perturbed dynamical systems
- Cooperation in regular lattices
- Heterogeneity in evolutionary games: an analysis of the risk perception
- Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Bimatrix Games
- Evolutionary Games on Networks: Phase Transition, Quasi-equilibrium, and Mathematical Principles
- Fixation probability in evolutionary dynamics on switching temporal networks