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Heritability promotes cooperation in spatial public goods games

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  • Liu, Run-Ran
  • Jia, Chun-Xiao
  • Wang, Bing-Hong

Abstract

Heritability is ubiquitous within most real biological or social systems. A heritable trait is most simply an offspring’s trait that resembles the parent’s corresponding trait, which can be fitness, strategy, or the way of strategy adoption for evolutionary games. Here we study the effects of heritability on the evolution of spatial public goods games. In our model, the fitness of players is determined by the payoffs from the current interactions and their history. Based on extensive simulations, we find that the density of cooperators is enhanced by increasing the heritability of players over a wide range of the multiplication factor. We attribute the enhancement of cooperation to the inherited fitness that stabilizes the fitness of players, and thus prevents the expansion of defectors effectively.

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  • Liu, Run-Ran & Jia, Chun-Xiao & Wang, Bing-Hong, 2010. "Heritability promotes cooperation in spatial public goods games," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 389(24), pages 5719-5724.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:389:y:2010:i:24:p:5719-5724
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.08.043
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    1. Wu, Yu’e & Zhang, Zhipeng & Chang, Shuhua, 2017. "Effect of self-interaction on the evolution of cooperation in complex topologies," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 481(C), pages 191-197.
    2. Wang, Yongjie & Chen, Tong, 2015. "Heuristics guide cooperative behaviors in public goods game," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 439(C), pages 59-65.
    3. Pan, Jianchen & Zhang, Lan & Han, Wenchen & Huang, Changwei, 2023. "Heterogeneous investment promotes cooperation in spatial public goods game on hypergraphs," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 609(C).
    4. Wang, Qun & Wang, Hanchen & Zhang, Zhuxi & Li, Yumeng & Liu, Yu & Perc, Matjaž, 2018. "Heterogeneous investments promote cooperation in evolutionary public goods games," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 502(C), pages 570-575.
    5. Li, Zhi-Hua, 2011. "Lifetime and fitness: Life process in spatial prisoner’s dilemma games," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 390(23), pages 4244-4250.
    6. Yang, Xu-Hua & Lou, Shun-Li & Chen, Guang & Chen, Sheng-Yong & Huang, Wei, 2013. "Scale-free networks via attaching to random neighbors," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 392(17), pages 3531-3536.

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