Cooperation prevails when individuals adjust their social ties

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1284-1291

  Santos, Francisco C ^a   Pacheco, Jorge M ^b,c   Lenaerts, Tom ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^e VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; GAME THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

COOPERATIVE INTERACTIONS; CRITICAL VALUE; EMPIRICAL DATA; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; LIVING SYSTEMS; LOWER AVERAGE; NATURAL SELECTION; REAL NETWORKS; SCALE HETEROGENEITIES; SOCIAL TIES;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GAME; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750440513     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020140     Document Type: Article

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