Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction
Multilevel selection is an important organizing principle that crucially underlies evolutionary processes from the emergence of cells to eusociality and the economics of nations. Previous studies on multilevel selection assumed that the effective higher-level selection emerges from lower-level repro...
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| description | Multilevel selection is an important organizing principle that crucially underlies evolutionary processes from the emergence of cells to eusociality and the economics of nations. Previous studies on multilevel selection assumed that the effective higher-level selection emerges from lower-level reproduction. This leads to selection among groups, although only individuals reproduce. We introduce selective group extinction , where groups die with a probability inversely proportional to their group fitness. When accounting for this the critical benefit-to-cost ratio is substantially lowered. Because in game theory and evolutionary dynamics the degree of cooperation crucially depends on this ratio above which cooperation emerges, previous studies may have substantially underestimated the establishment and maintenance of cooperation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb2a9408e2a547b397993a26e22837532023-08-08T14:33:45ZengIOP PublishingNew Journal of Physics1367-26302016-01-0118606300810.1088/1367-2630/18/6/063008Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinctionMarvin A Böttcher0Jan Nagler1Department for Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön , Germany; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization , Göttingen, GermanyComputational Physics, IfB, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandMultilevel selection is an important organizing principle that crucially underlies evolutionary processes from the emergence of cells to eusociality and the economics of nations. Previous studies on multilevel selection assumed that the effective higher-level selection emerges from lower-level reproduction. This leads to selection among groups, although only individuals reproduce. We introduce selective group extinction , where groups die with a probability inversely proportional to their group fitness. When accounting for this the critical benefit-to-cost ratio is substantially lowered. Because in game theory and evolutionary dynamics the degree of cooperation crucially depends on this ratio above which cooperation emerges, previous studies may have substantially underestimated the establishment and maintenance of cooperation.https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/6/063008game theorygroup selectionevolution of cooperationevolutionary dynamics |
| spellingShingle | Marvin A Böttcher Jan Nagler Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction New Journal of Physics game theory group selection evolution of cooperation evolutionary dynamics |
| title | Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction |
| title_full | Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction |
| title_fullStr | Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction |
| title_short | Promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction |
| title_sort | promotion of cooperation by selective group extinction |
| topic | game theory group selection evolution of cooperation evolutionary dynamics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/6/063008 |
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