Pathways to social evolution: reciprocity, relatedness, and synergy.

Abstract excerpt

Many organisms live in populations structured by space and by class, exhibit plastic responses to their social partners, and are subject to nonadditive ecological and fitness effects. Social evolution theory has long recognized that all of these factors can lead to different selection pressures but has only recently attempted to synthesize how these factors interact. Using models for both discrete and continuous...

Topics

• Cooperative Behavior
• Game Theory
• Genetics, Population
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype
• Social Behavior