Resource heterogeneity can facilitate cooperation.
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SUBMITTER: Kun A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3806347 | biostudies-literature | 2013
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Resource heterogeneity can facilitate cooperation.
Nature communications 20130101
Although social structure is known to promote cooperation, by locally exposing selfish agents to their own deeds, studies to date assumed that all agents have access to the same level of resources. This is clearly unrealistic. Here we find that cooperation can be maintained when some agents have access to more resources than others. Cooperation can then emerge even in populations in which the temptation to defect is so strong that players would act fully selfishly if their resources were distrib ...[more]
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