The Variety of Potential Interactions between Organisms and Their Environment (IMAGE)

Santa Fe Institute

The Variety of Potential Interactions between Organisms and Their Environment

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For simplicity, models of social evolution have often assumed that interactions between individuals are random, the physicochemical environment is implicit, and/or individuals cannot move within a patch or disperse between patches (top scenarios). [The authors] focus here on more realistic conditions, where interactions are nonrandom, the environmental dimension is explicit, and individuals can migrate (bottom scenarios), to investigate how these combined effects may influence the ecology and evolution of social behaviors.

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Sylvie Estrela et al

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