Uncovering the Mechanism of the Evolution of Cooperation in Heterogeneous Populations
We develop a new tool for studying evolutionary games on complex networks - dynamical approximate master equations (DAMEs).We use DAMEs to predict evolutionary outcomes of two-player repeated games on networks and to study the behavior of nodes and edges during evolution.DAMEs reveal the critical role of hubs in the evolution of cooperation in scale-free networks.DAMEs can approximate evolutionary dynamics with high accuracy in a very short time