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SUBMITTER: Kimmel GJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6363775 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kimmel Gregory J GJ Gerlee Philip P Brown Joel S JS Altrock Philipp M PM
Communications biology 20190205
An evolutionary game emerges when a subset of individuals incur costs to provide benefits to all individuals. Public goods games (PGG) cover the essence of such dilemmas in which cooperators are prone to exploitation by defectors. We model the population dynamics of a non-linear PGG and consider density-dependence on the global level, while the game occurs within local neighborhoods. At low cooperation, increases in the public good provide increasing returns. At high cooperation, increases provi ...[more]