Averting evolutionary suicide from the tragedy of the commons

• Main Authors: Lansing, John Stephen, Chung, Ning Ning, Chew, Lock Yue, Jacobs, Guy S.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Commons; Social-Ecological Systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163088
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In a tragedy of the commons, individual competition over a resource can reduce the resource itself, and thus reduce the fitness of the whole group. An extreme example is evolutionary suicide, which is predicted to occur when the selfish interests of free-riders and cheaters overwhelm cooperative beh...