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Negative niche construction favors the evolution of cooperation
2015
Evolutionary Ecology
By benefitting others at a cost to themselves, cooperators face an ever present threat from defectors-individuals that avail themselves of the cooperative benefit without contributing. A longstanding challenge to evolutionary biology is to understand the mechanisms that support the many instances of cooperation that nevertheless exist. In spatially-structured environments, clustered cooperator populations reach greater densities, which creates more mutational opportunities to gain beneficial
doi:10.1007/s10682-015-9803-6
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