Cooperation is essential for complex biological and social systems and explaining its evolutionary origins remains a … central question in several disciplines. Tag systems are a class of models demonstrating the evolution of cooperation between …

dynamic, although the nature of this strategy's role differs significantly between the two dynamics. The analysis reveals that … coordination game. We provide policy implications and lessons learned about the evolution of cooperation more generally. …

incentive schemes have gradually crowded out cooperation as an organization device. Our explanation does not draw on free …-riding, the obvious Achilles’ heel of cooperation, but relies completely on fundamental group contest mechanisms. By investigating …

carefully-chosen analytic tools, including the role of sexual selection, brain size, public versus positional goods, and …

behavior in social dilemmas, in which assortative/correlated matching plays an important role. In the current study of a multi … rate of cooperation, which is also associated with higher relative reward for a typical cooperative action. All in all, the … data show that cooperation does have a much better chance to persist in a correlated/assortative-matching environment, as …

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means of direct coordination or the enforcement of re …-commitment devices such as contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In a local interaction model, an authority forms …

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means of direct coordination or the enforcement of pre …-commitment devices such as contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In a local interaction model, an authority forms …