Heydon, Emily (2022) Exploring an Evolutionary Paradox: An Analysis of the "Spite Effect" and the "Nearly Neutral Effect" in Synergistic Models of Finite Populations. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Forber and Smead (2014) analyze how increasing the fitness benefits associated with prosocial behavior can increase the fitness of spiteful individuals relative to their prosocial counterparts, so that selection favors spite over prosociality. This poses a problem for the evolution of prosocial behavior: as the benefits of prosocial behavior increase, it becomes more likely that spite, not prosocial behavior, will evolve in any given population. In this paper, I develop two game-theoretic models which, taken together, illustrate how synergistic costs and benefits may provide partial solutions to Forber and Smead’s paradox.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Heydon, Emily eheydon@uci.edu
Keywords:	spite, prosocial behavior, paradox, evolution
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Game Theory
Depositing User:	Emily Heydon
Date Deposited:	10 Jul 2022 04:02
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2022 04:02
Item ID:	20858
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Game Theory
Date:	7 July 2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20858

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