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Emergence and Evolution of Cooperation Under Resource Pressure.

María Pereda1, Débora Zurro2,3,4, José I Santos5

  • 1Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC), Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain.

Scientific Reports
|April 1, 2017
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Cooperation in hunter-gatherer societies evolved through resource availability. Moderate survival stress promotes indirect reciprocity, where sharing non-essential resources reduces starvation risk and enhances collective survival.

Area of Science:

  • Anthropology
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Archaeology

Background:

  • Resource availability significantly impacts social dynamics in hunter-gatherer societies.
  • Understanding cooperation is key to explaining human social evolution.
  • Resource stress episodes offer insights into societal adaptations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To model the influence of resource availability on cooperation in hunter-gatherer societies.
  • To identify distinct cooperative regimes based on environmental resources and population size.
  • To explore the evolutionary mechanisms driving cooperation under survival stress.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a theoretical model integrating archaeological and ethnographic data.
  • Analysis of resource stress episodes in hunter-gatherer contexts.

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  • Examination of population size and resource availability dynamics.

    • Main Results:

    • Identification of three distinct cooperative regimes.
    • Highlighting a regime of moderate survival stress fostering evolutionary coordination.
    • Observation of self-organization into indirect reciprocity systems for resource sharing.
    • Emergence of a norm to share non-essential resources to mitigate starvation.

    Conclusions:

    • Resource availability and survival stress are critical drivers of cooperation evolution.
    • Indirect reciprocity and resource sharing are adaptive strategies in resource-scarce environments.
    • The study provides a framework for understanding cooperative behaviors in ancestral human populations.