Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation
Powers, Simon T., Penn, Alexandra S. and Watson, Richard A. (2007) Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation. In, e Costa, Fernando A., Rocha, Luis M., Costa, Ernesto, Harvey, Inman and Coutinho, António (eds.) Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007). the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) , Springer , 585-594.
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Description/Abstract
It is well known that certain environmental conditions, such as a spatially structured population, can promote the evolution of cooperative traits. However, such conditions are usually assumed to be externally imposed. In this paper, we present a model that allows the conditions that promote or hinder cooperation to arise adaptively via individual selection. Consequently, instead of selection simply favouring cooperation under imposed environmental conditions, in our model selection also operates on the conditions themselves via a niche construction process. Results are presented that show that the conditions that favour cooperation can evolve, even though those that favour selfish behaviour are also available and are initially selected for.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Event Dates: 10/09/07-14/09/07 |
| ISBNs: | 9783540749127 |
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| Keywords: | evolution; group selection; multi-level selection; trait-group; cooperation; altruism; niche construction |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Agents, Interactions & Complexity |
| Item ID: | 264277 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2013 04:00 |
| Contributors: | Powers, Simon T. (Author) Penn, Alexandra S. (Author) Watson, Richard A. (Author) e Costa, Fernando A. (Editor) Rocha, Luis M. (Editor) Costa, Ernesto (Editor) Harvey, Inman (Editor) Coutinho, António (Editor) |
| Date: | 9 September 2007 |
| Additional Information: | Event Dates: 10/09/07-14/09/07 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| ISI Citation Count: | 0 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264277 |
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