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Freedom to choose between public resources promotes cooperation.

PLoS computational biology - 1 Feb 2021

Salahshour Mohammad

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As cooperation incurs a cost to the cooperator for others to benefit, its evolution seems to contradict natural selection. How evolution has resolved this obstacle has been among the most intensely studied questions in evolutionary theory in recent decades. Here, we show that having a choice between different public resources provides a simple mechanism for cooperation to flourish. Such a mechanism can be at work...

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PMID: 33556071
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008703
PMCID: PMC7895419

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