Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Evolutionary games on isothermal graphs

  • Benjamin Allen,
  • Gabor Lippner,
  • Martin A. Nowak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13006-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The spatial structure of a population is often critical for the evolution of cooperation. Here, Allen and colleagues show that when spatial structure is represented by an isothermal graph, the effective number of neighbors per individual determines whether or not cooperation can evolve.