We investigate the effect of community structure on the evolution of cooperation in the prisoner’s dilemma and the snowdrift game with dynamical linking. We show both analytically and numerically that cooperators are generally more favorable on community networks than on networks without...

In a social network, individual opinions and interpersonal relationships always interact and coevolve. This continuously leads to self-organization of opinion clusters in the whole network. In this article we study how the coevolution on the two kinds of complex networks and the...

Generalized Darwinian evolutionary theory has emerged as central to the description of economic process (e.g., Aldrich et al., J Evol Econ 18:577–596, <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2008</CitationRef>). Just as Darwinian principles provide necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for understanding the dynamics of social entities, so too...</citationref>

Recent advances in evolutionary theory have important implications for environmental economics. A short overview is offered of evolutionarythinking in economics. Subsequently, major concepts and approaches inevolutionary biology and evolutionary economics are presented andcompared. Attention is...

One of the decisive advantages of a systems approach is the possibility to achieve a level of efficiency beyond any individual effort by integrating diverse capabilities. Integrated diversity should therefore be regarded as the source for the potential development of any system. The wealth of...

To explain emergent cultural phenomena, this paper argues, it is inevitable to understand the evolution of complex human cognitive adaptations and their links to the population-level dynamics of cultural variation. On the one hand, the process of cultural transmission is influenced and...