144580 20260217205516.0 doi 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.014306 sideral 139411 ART-2024-139411 eng Sadekar, Onkar Evolutionary game selection creates cooperative environments 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The emergence of collective cooperation in competitive environments is a well-known phenomenon in biology, economics, and social systems. While most evolutionary game models focus on the evolution of strategies for a fixed game, how strategic decisions coevolve with the environment has so far mostly been overlooked. Here, we consider a game selection model where not only the strategies but also the game can change over time following evolutionary principles. Our results show that coevolutionary dynamics of games and strategies can induce novel collective phenomena, fostering the emergence of cooperative environments. When the model is taken on structured populations the architecture of the interaction network can significantly amplify pro-social behavior, with a critical role played by network heterogeneity and the presence of clustered groups of similar players, distinctive features observed in real-world populations. By unveiling the link between the evolution of strategies and games for different structured populations, our model sheds new light on the origin of social dilemmas ubiquitously observed in real-world social systems. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-23R-FENOL info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-113582GB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/NextGenerationEU/E63-C22-0021-20006 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 2.4 2024 PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL 13 / 61 = 0.213 2024 Q1 T1 PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS 17 / 41 = 0.415 2024 Q2 T2 0.705 2024 Condensed Matter Physics 2024 Q2 Statistics and Probability 2024 Q2 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 2024 Q2 4.2 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Civilini, Andrea Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5204-1937 Latora, Vito Battiston, Federico 2003 395 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Materia Condensa. Área Física Materia Condensada 110, 1 (2024), 014306 [8 pp.] Phys. rev., E Physical Review E 2470-0045 1223946 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/144580/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 3313514 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/144580/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:144580 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:27:06 ARTICLE