4 papers
Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies
Alex McAvoy, Benjamin Allen, Martin A. Nowak
Prosocial behaviors are encountered in the donation game, the prisoner's dilemma, relaxed social dilemmas, and public goods games. Many studies assume that the population structure…
Transient amplifiers of selection and reducers of fixation for death-Birth updating on graphs
Benjamin Allen, Christine Sample, Robert Jencks +7
The spatial structure of an evolving population affects which mutations become fixed. Some structures amplify selection, increasing the likelihood that beneficial mutations become…
Evolutionary Games on Isothermal Graphs
Benjamin Allen, Gabor Lippner, Martin A. Nowak
Population structure affects the outcome of natural selection. Static population structures can be described by graphs, where individuals occupy the nodes, and interactions occur a…
Evolution of worker policing
Jason W. Olejarz, Benjamin Allen, Carl Veller +2
Workers in insect societies are sometimes observed to kill male eggs of other workers, a phenomenon known as worker policing. We perform a mathematical analysis of the evolutionary…