A Mutation Threshold for Cooperative Takeover.

ABSTRACT: One of the leading theories for the origin of life includes the hypothesis according to which life would have evolved as cooperative networks of molecules. Explaining cooperation-and particularly, its emergence in favoring the evolution of life-bearing molecules-is thus a key element in describing the transition from nonlife to life. Using agent-based modeling of the iterated prisoner's dilemma, we investigate the emergence of cooperative behavior in a stochastic and spatially extended setting and characterize the effects of inheritance and variability. We demonstrate that there is a mutation threshold above which cooperation is-counterintuitively-selected, which drives a dramatic and robust cooperative takeover of the whole system sustained consistently up to the error catastrophe, in a m

SUBMITTER: Champagne-Ruel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8874834 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature