ArticleScientific reports2017
Emergence and Evolution of Cooperation Under Resource Pressure.
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- The Impact of Cooperation Under Climate Constraints: An Agent-Based Model for Exploring Paleolithic Behavioral Adaptations in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor.Journal of archaeological method and theory · 2026Article
- The evolution of intergroup cooperation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Modularity of food-sharing networks minimises the risk for individual and group starvation in hunter-gatherer societies.PloS one · 2023Article
- Cooperation and Lateral Forces: Moving Beyond Bottom-Up and Top-Down Drivers of Animal Population Dynamics.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Human-Plant Coevolution: A modelling framework for theory-building on the origins of agriculture.PloS one · 2022Article
- Nutrient status shapes selfish mitochondrial genome dynamics across different levels of selection.eLife · 2020Article
- The perils of cheating.eLife · 2020Article
- Harsh environments promote alloparental care across human societies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
We study the influence that resource availability has on cooperation in the context of hunter-gatherer societies. This paper proposes a model based on archaeological and ethnographic research on resource stress episodes, which exposes three different cooperative regimes according to the relationship between resource availability in the environment and population size. The most interesting regime represents moderate survival stress in which individuals coordinate in an evolutionary way to increase the probabilities of survival and reduce the risk of failing to meet the minimum needs for survival. Populations self-organise in an indirect reciprocity system in which the norm that emerges is to share the part of the resource that is not strictly necessary for survival, thereby collectively lowering the chances of starving. Our findings shed further light on the emergence and evolution of cooperation in hunter-gatherer societies.
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