Cooperation in animals: Toward a game theory within the framework of social competence

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-37

  Bshary, Redouan ^a   Oliveira, Rui F ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^d CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; GAME; INTEGRATION; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 84921484433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23521546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.01.008     Document Type: Review

References (65)

1. Hamilton W.D. The genetical evolution of social behaviour, I. II. J Theor Biol 1964, 7:1-52.
2. Lehmann L., Keller L. The evolution of cooperation and altruism-a general framework and a classification of models. J Evol Biol 2006, 19:1365-1376.
3. Bshary R., Bergmüller R. Distinguishing four fundamental approaches to the evolution of helping. J Evol Biol 2008, 21:405-420.
4. Maynard Smith J. Evolution and The Theory of Games 1982, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Nowak M.A. Evolving cooperation. J Theor Biol 2012, 299:1-8.
6. Leimar O., Hammerstein P. Evolution of cooperation through indirect reciprocity. Proc R Soc B 2001, 268:745-753.
7. Bshary R., Bronstein J.L. A general scheme to predict partner control mechanisms in pairwise cooperative interactions between unrelated individuals. Ethology 2011, 117:271-283.
8. McNamara J.M., Leimar O. Variation and the response to variation as a basis for successful cooperation. Phil Trans R Soc B 2010, 365:2627-2633.
9. Heath K.D., Stinchcombe J.R. Explaining mutualism variation: a new evolutionary paradox?. Evolution 2014, 68:309-317.
10. Nowak M.A., Sigmund K. Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring. Nature 1998, 393:573-577.
11. Sherratt T.N., Roberts G. The importance of phenotypic defectors in stabilizing reciprocal altruism. Behav Ecol 2001, 123:313-317.
12. Lotem A., Fishman M.A., Stone L. From reciprocity to unconditional altruism through signalling benefits. Proc R Soc B 2003, 270:199-205.
13. McNamara J.M., Barta Z., Houston A.I. Variation in behaviour promotes cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma game. Nature 2004, 428:745-748.
14. Johnstone R.A., Bshary R. Mutualism, market effects and partner control. J Evol Biol 2008, 21:879-888.
15. Archetti M., Scheuring I., Hoffman M., Frederickson M.E., Pierce N.E., Yu D.W. Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation. Ecol Lett 2011, 14:1300-1312.
16. Frederickson M.E. Rethinking mutualism stability: heaters and the evolution of sanctions. Quart Rev Biol 2013, 88:269-295.
17. Humphrey N.K. The social function of intellect. Growing Points in Ethology 1976, 303-317. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. P. Bateson, R. Hinde (Eds.).
18. Dunbar R.I.M., Shultz S. Understanding primate brain evolution. Phil Trans R Soc B 2007, 362:649-658.
19. Taborsky B., Oliveira R.F. Social competence: an evolutionary approach. Trends Ecol Evol 2012, 27:679-688.
20. Oliveira R.F. Social behavior in context: hormonal modulation of behavioural plasticity and social competence. Integr Comp Biol 2009, 49:423-440.
21. Auld J.R., Agrawal A.A., Relyea R.A. Re-evaluating the costs and limits of adaptive phenotypic plasticity. Proc R Soc B 2010, 277:503-511.
22. Sachser N., Kaiser S., Hennessy M.B. Behavioural profiles are shaped by social experience: when, how and why. Phil Trans R Soc B 2013, 368:20120344.
23. Schradin C. Intraspecific variation in social organization by genetic variation, developmental plasticity, social flexibility or entirely extrinsic factors. Phil Trans R Soc B 2013, 368:20120346.
24. Lotem A., Halpern J.Y. Coevolution of learning and data-acquisition mechanisms: a model for cognitive evolution. Phil Trans R Soc B 2012, 367:2686-2694.
25. Arnold C., Taborsky B. Social experience in early ontogeny has lasting effects on social skills in cooperatively breeding cichlids. Anim Behav 2010, 79:621-630.
26. Taborsky B., Arnold C., Junker J., Tschopp A. The early social environment affects social competence in a cooperative breeder. Anim Behav 2012, 83:1067-1074.
27. Branchi I., D'Andrea I., Fiore M., Di Fausto V., Aloe L., Alleva E. Early social enrichment shapes social behavior and nerve growth factor and brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in the adult mouse brain. Biol Psychiatry 2006, 60:690-696.
28. Curley J.P., Davidson S., Bateson P., Champagne F.A. Social enrichment during postnatal development induces transgenerational effects on emotional and reproductive behavior in mice. Front Behav Neurosci 2009, 3:25.
29. Raihani N.J., Bshary R. Resolving the iterated prisoner's dilemma: theory and reality. J Evol Biol 2011, 24:1628-1639.
30. Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox 2002, MIT Press, Cambridge. G. Gigerenzer, R. Selten (Eds.).
31. Kümmerli R., Burton-Chellew M.N., Ross-Gillespie A., West S.A. Resistance to extreme strategies, rather than prosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public good games. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2010, 107:10125-10130.
32. Chittka L., Skorupski P., Raine N.E. Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making. Trends Ecol Evol 2009, 247:400-407.
33. Baumard N., André J.B., Sperber D.A. A mutualistic approach to morality: the evolution of fairness by partner choice. Behav Brain Sci 2013, 36:59-122.
34. Dingemanse N.J., Wolf M. Recent models for adaptive personality differences: a review. Phil Trans R Soc B 2010, 365:3947-3958.
35. Viana D.S., Gordo I., Sucena E., Moita M.A. Cognitive and motivational requirements for the emergence of cooperation in a rat social game. PLoS ONE 2010, 5.
36. McNally L., Brown S.P., Jackson A.L. Cooperation and the evolution of intelligence. Proc R Soc B 2012, 279:3027-3034.
37. McNally L., Jackson A.L. Cooperation creates selection for tactical deception. Proc R Soc B 2013, 280:20130699.
38. Gingins S., Werminghausen J., Johnstone R.A., Grutter A.S., Bshary R. Power and temptation cause shifts between exploitation and cooperation in a cleaner wrasse mutualism. Proc R Soc B 2013, 280:20130553.
39. Soares M.C., Oliveira R.F., Ros A.F., Grutter A.S., Bshary R. Tactile stimulation lowers stress in fish. Nat Commun 2011, 2:534.
40. Pierce N.E., Braby M.F., Heath A., Lohman D.J., Mathew J., Rand D.B., Travassos M.A. The ecology and evolution of ant association in the Lycaenidae Lepidoptera. Ann Rev Entomol 2002, 47:733-771.
41. Noë R. A veto game played by baboons: a challenge to the use of the Prisoner's Dilemma as a paradigm for reciprocity and cooperation. Anim Behav 1990, 391:78-90.
42. Doebeli M., Knowlton N. The evolution of interspecific mutualisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci 1998, 95:8676-8680.
43. Thornton A., Lukas D. Individual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives. Phil Trans R Soc B 2012, 367:2773-2783.
44. Kappeler P.M., Barrett L., Blumstein D.T., Clutton-Brock T.H. Constraints and flexibility in mammalian social behaviour: introduction and synthesis. Phil Trans R Soc B 2013, 368:20120337.
45. Oliveira R.F. Mind the fish: zebrafish as a model in cognitive social neuroscience. Front Neural Circuits 2013, 7.
46. Hofmann H.A., Beery A.K., Blumstein D.T., Couzin I.D., Earley R.L., Hayes L.D., Rubenstein D.R. An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behaviour. Trends Ecol Evol 2014, 29:581-589.
47. Weitekamp C.A., Hofmann H.A. Evolutionary themes in the neurobiology of social cognition. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2014, 28:22-27.
48. Grutter A.S., Bshary R. Cleaner wrasse prefer client mucus: support for partner control mechanisms in cleaning interactions. Proc R Soc B Suppl 2003, 270:242-244.
49. Oates J., Manica A., Bshary R., Grutter A.S. Relationship between roving behaviour and the diet and client composition of the cleaner fish Labroides bicolor. J Fish Biol 2012, 81:210-219.
50. Noë R., van Schaik C.P., van Hooff J.A.R.A. The market effect: an explanation for pay-off asymmetries among collaborating animals. Ethology 1991, 87:97-118.
51. Clutton-Brock T.H., Parker G.A. Punishment in animal societies. Nature 1995, 373:209-216.
52. Bshary R., Grutter A.S., Willener A.S.T., Leimar O. Pairs of cooperating cleaner fish provide better service quality than singletons. Nature 2008, 455:964-967.
53. Adam T.C. Competition encourages cooperation: client fish receive higher-quality service when cleaner fish compete. Anim Behav 2010, 79:1183-1189.
54. Soares M.C., Cardoso S.C., Grutter A.S., Oliveira R.F., Bshary R. Cortisol mediates cleaner wrasse switch from cooperation to cheating and tactical deception. Horm Behav 2014, 66:346-350.
55. Bshary R., Oliveira R.F., Grutter A.S. Short-term variation in the level of cooperation in the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus: implications for the role of potential stressors. Ethology 2011, 117:246-253.
56. Wismer S., Pinto A.I., Vail A.L., Grutter A.S., Bshary R. Variation in cleaner wrasse cooperation and cognition: influence of the developmental environment?. Ethology 2014, 120:519-531.
57. Wilson A.D., Krause J., Herbert-Read J.E., Ward A.J. The personality behind cheating: behavioural types and the feeding ecology of cleaner fish. Ethology 2014, 120:904-912.
58. Gomez-Marin A., Paton J.J., Kampff A.R., Costa R.M., Mainen Z.F. Big behavioral data: psychology, ethology and the foundations of neuroscience. Nat Neurosci 2014, 17:1455-1462.
59. Strausfeld N.J., Hirth F. Deep homology of arthropod central complex and vertebrate basal ganglia. Science 2013, 340:157-161.
60. O'Connell L.A., Hofmann H.A. The vertebrate mesolimbic reward system and social behavior network: a comparative synthesis. J Comp Neurol 2011, 519:3599-3639.
61. O'Connell L.A., Hofmann H.A. Evolution of a vertebrate social decision-making network. Science 2012, 336:1154-1157.
62. Fernald R.D., Maruska K.P. Social information changes the brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2012, 109:17194-17199.
63. Cardoso S.C., Paitio J.R., Oliveira R.F., Bshary R., Soares M.C. Arginine vasotocin reduces levels of cooperative behaviour in a cleaner fish. Physiol Behav 2014, 139:314-320.
64. Mendonça R., Soares M.C., Bshary R., Oliveira R.F. Arginine vasotocin neuronal phenotype and interspecific cooperative behavior. Brain Behav Evol 2013, 82:166-176.
65. Soares M.C., Bshary R., Mendonça R., Grutter A.S., Oliveira R.F. Arginine vasotocin regulation of interspecific cooperative behaviour in a cleaner fish. PLoS One 2012, 7:e39583.