Evolution of cooperation in costly institutes

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author Salahshour, Mohammad
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contents We show that in a situation where individuals have a choice between a costly institute and a free institute to perform a collective action task, the existence of a participation cost promotes cooperation in the costly institute. Despite paying for a participation cost, costly cooperators, who join the costly institute and cooperate, can out-perform defectors, who predominantly join a free institute. This, not only promotes cooperation in the costly institute but also facilitates the evolution of cooperation in the free institute. A costly institute out-performs a free institute when the profitability of the collective action is low. On the other hand, a free institute performs better when the collective action's profitability is high. Furthermore, we show that in a structured population, when individuals have a choice between different institutes, a mutualistic relation between cooperators with different institute preferences emerges and helps the evolution of cooperation.
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spellingShingle Evolution of cooperation in costly institutes
Salahshour, Mohammad
Physics and Society
Biological Physics
Populations and Evolution
We show that in a situation where individuals have a choice between a costly institute and a free institute to perform a collective action task, the existence of a participation cost promotes cooperation in the costly institute. Despite paying for a participation cost, costly cooperators, who join the costly institute and cooperate, can out-perform defectors, who predominantly join a free institute. This, not only promotes cooperation in the costly institute but also facilitates the evolution of cooperation in the free institute. A costly institute out-performs a free institute when the profitability of the collective action is low. On the other hand, a free institute performs better when the collective action's profitability is high. Furthermore, we show that in a structured population, when individuals have a choice between different institutes, a mutualistic relation between cooperators with different institute preferences emerges and helps the evolution of cooperation.
title Evolution of cooperation in costly institutes
topic Physics and Society
Biological Physics
Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11432