Network topology and movement cost, not updating mechanism, determine the evolution of cooperation in mobile structured populations.

ABSTRACT: Evolutionary models are used to study the self-organisation of collective action, often incorporating population structure due to its ubiquitous presence and long-known impact on emerging phenomena. We investigate the evolution of multiplayer cooperation in mobile structured populations, where individuals move strategically on networks and interact with those they meet in groups of variable size. We find that the evolution of multiplayer cooperation primarily depends on the network topology and movement cost while using different stochastic update rules seldom influences evolutionary outcomes. Cooperation robustly co-evolves with movement on complete networks and structure has a partially detrimental effect on it. These findings contrast an established principle from evolutionary graph the

SUBMITTER: Pires DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10393168 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature