Effect of spatial structure on the evolution of cooperation

Understand

Spatial structure is known to have an impact on the evolution of cooperation, and so it has been intensively studied during recent years.

• Previous work has shown the relevance of some features, such as the synchronicity of the updating, the clustering of the network or the influence of the update rule.
• This has been done, however, for concrete settings with particular games, networks and update rules, with the consequence that some contradictions have arisen and a general understanding of these topics is missing in the broader context of the space of 2x2 games.
• To address this issue, we have performed a systematic and exhaustive simulation in the different degrees of freedom of the problem.