Resource heterogeneity can facilitate cooperation

Although social structure is known to promote cooperation, by locally exposing selfish agents to their own deeds, studies to date assumed that all agents have access to the same level of resources. This is clearly unrealistic. Here we find that cooperation can be maintained when some agents have acc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kun, Ádám, Dieckmann, Ulf
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806347/