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Fifty shades of greenbeard: robust evolution of altruism based on similarity of complex phenotypes.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 14 Jun 2023
Båvik Linnéa M, Mehta Rohan S, Weissman Daniel B
Abstract excerpt
We study the evolution of altruistic behaviour under a model where individuals choose to cooperate by comparing a set of continuous phenotype tags. Individuals play a donation game and only donate to other individuals that are sufficiently similar to themselves in a multidimensional phenotype space. We find the generic maintenance of robust altruism when phenotypes are multidimensional. Selection for altruism is...
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