2 papers
q-bio.PE2024
Exploring the Evolution of Altruistic Punishment with a PDE Model of Cultural Multilevel Selection
Daniel B. Cooney
Two mechanisms that have been used to study the evolution of cooperative behavior are altruistic punishment, in which cooperative individuals pay additional costs to punish defecti…
q-bio.PE2024
Steady-State and Dynamical Behavior of a PDE Model of Multilevel Selection with Pairwise Group-Level Competition
Konstantinos Alexiou, Daniel B. Cooney
Evolutionary competition often occurs simultaneously at multiple levels of organization, in which traits or behaviors that are costly for an individual can provide collective benef…