The rules of multiplayer cooperation in networks of communities.

ABSTRACT: Community organisation permeates both social and biological complex systems. To study its interplay with behaviour emergence, we model mobile structured populations with multiplayer interactions. We derive general analytical methods for evolutionary dynamics under high home fidelity when populations self-organise into networks of asymptotically isolated communities. In this limit, community organisation dominates over the network structure and emerging behaviour is independent of network topology. We obtain the rules of multiplayer cooperation in networks of communities for different types of social dilemmas. The success of cooperation is a result of the benefits shared among communal cooperators outperforming the benefits reaped by defectors in mixed communities. Under weak selection, coo

SUBMITTER: Pires DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11361752 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature