Environmental variability promotes the evolution of cooperation among humans, simulation suggests

Environmental variability promotes the evolution of cooperation among humans: A simulation-based analysis

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new perspective for the reinterpretation of the variability selection hypothesis (VSH), which attributes improvement in human cognitive abilities to severe EV in Africa during the Middle Stone Age (MSA), as further relevant to the explanation of the evolu…

Environmental variability promotes the evolution of cooperation among humans, simulation suggests

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory.