Original title: Evolutionary game selection creates cooperative environments
Authors: Onkar Sadekar, Andrea Civilini, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Vito Latora, Federico Battiston
The article explores how cooperation arises in competitive settings across various fields. While most studies focus on evolving strategies for fixed games, this research delves into how strategies and the game itself evolve together. Their model shows that as games and strategies co-evolve, they spark new collective behaviors, nurturing cooperative environments. When applied to structured populations, like real-world social networks, certain network structures significantly enhance cooperative behavior. Specifically, networks with diverse connections and clustered groups amplify pro-social actions. This sheds light on the connection between strategy evolution and changing game dynamics in different populations, offering insights into why social dilemmas persist in real-world societies. Ultimately, this work reveals how games and strategies evolving together can lead to cooperative behaviors, mirroring what we see in diverse social systems.
Original article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11128