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  • Evolution of extortion in structured populations
    Szolnoki, Attila ; Perc, Matjaž
    Extortion strategies can dominate any opponent in an iterated prisoner's dilemma game. But if players are able to adopt the strategies performing better, extortion becomes widespread and evolutionary ... unstable. It may sometimes act as a catalyst for the evolution of cooperation, and it can also emerge in interactions between two populations, yet it is not the evolutionarily stable outcome. Here we revisit these results in the realm of spatial games. We find that pairwise imitation and birth-death dynamics return known evolutionary outcomes. Myopic best response strategy updating, on the other hand, reveals counterintuitive solutions. Defectors and extortioners coarsen spontaneously, which allows cooperators to prevail even at prohibitively high temptations to defect. Here extortion strategies play the role of a Trojan horse. They may emerge among defectors by chance, andonce they do, cooperators become viable as well. These results are independent of the interaction topology, and they highlight the importance of coarsening, checkerboard ordering, and best response updating in evolutionary games.
    Source: Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. - ISSN 1539-3755 (Vol. 89, iss. 2, 2014, str. 022804-1-022804-5)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2014
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 20361224
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