Viscous populations and their support for reciprocal cooperation

Artificial Life

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-334

  Marshall, James A R ^a   Rowe, Jonathan E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering population; Collective stability; Prisoner's dilemma; Reciprocal cooperation; Tit for tat; Viscous population

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CLUSTERING POPULATION; COLLECTIVE STABILITY; RECIPROCAL COOPERATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COOPERATION; VISCOSITY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0042389600     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454603322392497     Document Type: Letter

References (17)

1. Allee, W. C., (1931). Animal aggregations: A study in general sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. Axelrod, R. 1984. The evolution of cooperation. New York: Basic Books.
3. Boerlijst, M., & Hogeweg, P. (1991). Self-structuring and selection: Spiral waves as a substrate for prebiotic evolution. In C. G. Langton, C. Taylor, J. Doyne Farmer, & S. Rasmussen (Eds.), Artificial life II (pp. 255-276). Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley.
4. Di Paolo, E. A. (2000). Ecological symmetry breaking can favour the evolution of altruism in an action-response game. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 203, 135-152.
5. Di Paolo, E. A., Noble, J. & Bullock, S. (2000). Simulation models as opaque thought experiments. In M. Bedau, J. McCaskill, & S. Packard (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 497-506). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour I. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-16.
7. Huberman, B., & Glance, N. (1993). Evolutionary games and computer simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 90(16), 7715-7718.
8. Jarman, P. J. (1974). The social organisation of antelope in relation to their ecology. Behavior, 48, 215-267.
9. Mar, G. & St Denis, P. (1994). Chaos in cooperation: Continuous-valued prisoner's dilemmas in infinite-valued logic. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. 4(4) 943-958.
10. Marshall, J. A. R., & Rowe, J. E. (2000). Investigating the mechanisms underlying cooperation in viscous population multi-agent systems. In M. Bedau, J. McCaskill, & S. Packard (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 348-352). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
11. Marshall, J. A. R. & Rowe, J. E. (2003). Kin selection may inhibit the evolution of reciprocation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 222(3), 231-235.
12. Maynard, Smith, J. (1982). Evolution and the theory of games. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
13. Maynard, Smith, J., & Price, G. R. (1973). The logic of animal conflict. Nature, 246, 15-18.
14. Nowak, M., & May, R. (1992). Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature, 359, 826-829.
15. Taylor, C., & Jefferson, D. R. (1995). Artificial life as a tool for biological inquiry. In C. Langton (Ed.), Artificial life: An overview (pp. 1-14). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
16. Trivers, R. (1971). The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology, 46, 35-57.
17. Wilson, D. S., Pollock, G. B., & Dugatkin, L. A. (1992). Can altruism evolve in purely viscous populations? Evolutionary Ecology, 6, 331-341.