The role of the emergent property of resource in the evolution of distributive altruism based on spatial reciprocity
Authored by Takaya Arita, Fuki Ueno
Date Published: 2015
DOI: 10.1007/s10015-015-0198-9
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Abstract
One of the most significant problems in interdisciplinary research
fields, including evolutionary biology, ecology, economics and sociology
is to explain social behaviors such as cooperation. Cooperation seems to
be difficult to reconcile with natural selection. Why should an
individual help another under Darwinian selection? This paper focuses on
the altruism in distribution. It seems obvious that giving out nothing
is more adaptive than giving resources to others. However, at least we
humans, as innately social animals, sometimes share resources with
others in our daily social life. We develop an evolutionary model with
the distribution dilemma game and investigate the evolution of
distributive altruism based on spatial reciprocity, especially by paying
attention to the effect of the emergent properties of the resource
during distribution.
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Cooperation