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Does mobility decrease cooperation?

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Journal of Theoretical Biology, 244 (4): 722 - 728 (2007)
DOI: DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.09.012

Abstract

We explore the minimal conditions for sustainable cooperation on a spatially distributed population of memoryless, unconditional strategies (cooperators and defectors) in presence of unbiased, non-contingent mobility in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game. We find that cooperative behavior is not only possible but may even be enhanced by such an #always-move# rule, when compared with the strongly viscous (#never-move#) case. In addition, mobility also increases the capability of cooperation to emerge and invade a population of defectors, what may have a fundamental role in the problem of the onset of cooperation.

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