Altruism in populations at the extinction transition

We study the evolution of cooperation as a birth-death process in spatially extended populations. The benefit from the altruistic behavior of a cooperator is implemented by decreasing the death rate of its direct neighbors. The cost of cooperation is the increase of a cooperator's death rate pr...

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Main Authors: Konstantin Klemm, Nagi Khalil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-03-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013374