Emergence and evolution of cooperation under resource pressure

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• dc.contributor.author Pereda, María
• dc.contributor.author Zurro, Débora
• dc.contributor.author Santos, José I.
• dc.contributor.author Briz Godino, Ivan
• dc.contributor.author Álvarez, Myrian
• dc.contributor.author Caro, Jorge
• dc.contributor.author Galán, José Manuel
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-22T06:28:26Z
• dc.date.available 2024-10-22T06:28:26Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract We study the influence that resource availability has on cooperation in the context of hunter-gatherer societies. This paper proposes a model based on archaeological and ethnographic research on resource stress episodes, which exposes three different cooperative regimes according to the relationship between resource availability in the environment and population size. The most interesting regime represents moderate survival stress in which individuals coordinate in an evolutionary way to increase the probabilities of survival and reduce the risk of failing to meet the minimum needs for survival. Populations self-organise in an indirect reciprocity system in which the norm that emerges is to share the part of the resource that is not strictly necessary for survival, thereby collectively lowering the chances of starving. Our findings shed further light on the emergence and evolution of cooperation in hunter-gatherer societies.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Project CSD2010-00034 (SimulPast CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010) and HAR2009-06996; from the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET): Project PIP-0706; from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: Project GR7846; and from the project H2020 FET OPEN RIA IBSEN/662725. We also acknowledge assistance from the Santander Supercomputación support group at the University of Cantabria, which provided access to the Altamira Supercomputer at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA-CSIC), a member of the Spanish Supercomputing Network, for performing simulations/analyses.
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• dc.identifier.citation Pereda M, Zurro D, Santos JI, Briz i Godino I, Álvarez M, Caro J, et al. Emergence and evolution of cooperation under resource pressure. Sci Rep. 2017 Mar 31;7(1):45574. DOI: 10.1038/srep45574
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep45574
• dc.identifier.issn 2045-2322
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68294
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Nature Research
• dc.relation.ispartof Scientific Reports. 2017 Mar 31;7(1):45574
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• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSD2010-00034
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• dc.subject.other Etnologia
• dc.subject.other Arqueologia
• dc.subject.other Medi ambient
• dc.title Emergence and evolution of cooperation under resource pressure
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