Evolutionary game selection creates cooperative environments

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Autori principali: Sadekar, Onkar, Civilini, Andrea, Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús, Latora, Vito, Battiston, Federico
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Sadekar, Onkar
Civilini, Andrea
Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
Latora, Vito
Battiston, Federico
author_facet Sadekar, Onkar
Civilini, Andrea
Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
Latora, Vito
Battiston, Federico
contents The emergence of collective cooperation in competitive environments is a well-known phenomenon in biology, economics, and social systems. While most evolutionary game models focus on the evolution of strategies for a fixed game, how strategic decisions coevolve with the environment has so far mostly been overlooked. Here, we consider a game selection model where not only the strategies but also the game can change over time following evolutionary principles. Our results show that coevolutionary dynamics of games and strategies can induce novel collective phenomena, fostering the emergence of cooperative environments. When the model is taken on structured populations the architecture of the interaction network can significantly amplify pro-social behavior, with a critical role played by network heterogeneity and the presence of clustered groups of similar players, distinctive features observed in real-world populations. By unveiling the link between the evolution of strategies and games for different structured populations, our model sheds new light on the origin of social dilemmas ubiquitously observed in real-world social systems.
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spellingShingle Evolutionary game selection creates cooperative environments
Sadekar, Onkar
Civilini, Andrea
Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
Latora, Vito
Battiston, Federico
Physics and Society
Computer Science and Game Theory
Social and Information Networks
Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
The emergence of collective cooperation in competitive environments is a well-known phenomenon in biology, economics, and social systems. While most evolutionary game models focus on the evolution of strategies for a fixed game, how strategic decisions coevolve with the environment has so far mostly been overlooked. Here, we consider a game selection model where not only the strategies but also the game can change over time following evolutionary principles. Our results show that coevolutionary dynamics of games and strategies can induce novel collective phenomena, fostering the emergence of cooperative environments. When the model is taken on structured populations the architecture of the interaction network can significantly amplify pro-social behavior, with a critical role played by network heterogeneity and the presence of clustered groups of similar players, distinctive features observed in real-world populations. By unveiling the link between the evolution of strategies and games for different structured populations, our model sheds new light on the origin of social dilemmas ubiquitously observed in real-world social systems.
title Evolutionary game selection creates cooperative environments
topic Physics and Society
Computer Science and Game Theory
Social and Information Networks
Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11128