Cooperation is crucial for human prosperity, and population structure fosters it through pairwise interactions and coordinated behavior in larger groups. A recent study explores the evolution of behavioral strategies in higher-order population structures, including pairwise and multi-way interactions to reveal that higher-order interactions promote cooperation across networks, especially when they are formed by conjoined communities.
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Capraro, V., Perc, M. In search of the most cooperative network. Nat Comput Sci 4, 257–258 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00623-6
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