Biology – Quantitative Biology – Populations and Evolution
Scientific paper
2008-06-16
PNAS 106, 8597 (2009)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Populations and Evolution
version 2: minor changes; equivalent to final published version
Scientific paper
10.1073/pnas.0902528106
Evolutionary dynamics can be studied in well-mixed or structured populations. Population structure typically arises from the heterogeneous distribution of individuals in physical space or on social networks. Here we introduce a new type of space to evolutionary game dynamics: phenotype space. The population is well-mixed in the sense that everyone is equally likely to interact with everyone else, but the behavioral strategies depend on distance in phenotype space. Individuals might behave differently towards those who look similar or dissimilar. Individuals mutate to nearby phenotypes. We study the `phenotypic space walk' of populations. We present analytic calculations that bring together ideas from coalescence theory and evolutionary game dynamics. As a particular example, we investigate the evolution of cooperation in phenotype space. We obtain a precise condition for natural selection to favor cooperators over defectors: for a one-dimensional phenotype space and large population size the critical benefit-to-cost ratio is given by b/c=1+2/sqrt{3}. We derive the fundamental condition for any evolutionary game and explore higher dimensional phenotype spaces.
Antal Tibor
Nowak Martin A.
Ohtsuki Hisashi
Taylor Peter D.
Wakeley John
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