Author summary Understanding how cooperation can evolve and be sustained is a central question in evolutionary biology and social science. One prominent explanation is indirect reciprocity, where indi...

The ultimate goal of research on the evolution of cooperation could be conceived as finding a method for stabilizing strategies that always cooperate, that never deviate from cooperation, that never e...

Evolutionary game theory (EGT)—overwhelmingly employed today for the study of cooperation in various systems, from microbes to cancer and from inse...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Direct reciprocity is a wide-spread mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. In repeated interactions, players can condition their behavior on p...

Inverse Complexity Lab

I recently read a paper by Kleshnina et al. (2023), The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games, which provided an opportunity to teach myself about how to ...

Game theory is a tool to describe how people make decisions in a strategic context. This theory has been used to design institutions, auctions, and contracts. But it also helps us to make sense of som...