{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["6"],"submitter":["Zhang H"],"pubmed_abstract":["We study the emergence of conditional cooperation in the presence of both intra-group and inter-group selection. Individuals play public goods games within their groups using conditional strategies, which are represented as piecewise linear response functions. Accordingly, groups engage in conflicts with a certain probability. In contrast to previous studies, we consider continuous contribution levels and a rich set of conditional strategies, allowing for a wide range of possible interactions between strategies. We find that the existence of conditional strategies enables the stabilization of cooperation even under strong intra-group selection. The strategy that eventually dominates in the population has two key properties: (i) It is unexploitable with strong intra-group selection; (ii) It"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pagination":["23006"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4786827"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Evolution of conditional cooperation under multilevel selection."],"pmcid":["PMC4786827"],"pubmed_authors":["Zhang H","Perc M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Evolution of conditional cooperation under multilevel selection.","description":"We study the emergence of conditional cooperation in the presence of both intra-group and inter-group selection. Individuals play public goods games within their groups using conditional strategies, which are represented as piecewise linear response functions. Accordingly, groups engage in conflicts with a certain probability. In contrast to previous studies, we consider continuous contribution levels and a rich set of conditional strategies, allowing for a wide range of possible interactions between strategies. We find that the existence of conditional strategies enables the stabilization of cooperation even under strong intra-group selection. The strategy that eventually dominates in the population has two key properties: (i) It is unexploitable with strong intra-group selection; (ii) It","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Mar","modification":"2025-04-18T22:04:03.805Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:10:52Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4786827","cross_references":{"pubmed":["26965647"],"doi":["10.1038/srep23006"]}}