Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

Rock is wrapped by paper, paper is cut by scissors and scissors are crushed by rock. This
simple game is popular among children and adults to decide on trivial disputes that have no …

Solar power has become one of the most essential sources in the move to clean energy
production. It plays a vital role in providing environmental, social and economic benefits. As …

Methods of statistical physics have proven valuable for studying the evolution of cooperation
in social dilemma games. However, recent empirical research shows that cooperative …

Predator–prey interactions are one of ecology's central research themes, but with many
interdisciplinary implications across the social and natural sciences. Here we consider an …

Analyzing coexistence and survival scenarios of Lotka-Volterra (LV) networks in which the
total biomass is conserved is of vital importance for the characterization of long-term …

The rock-paper-scissors game is a paradigmatic model for biodiversity, with applications
ranging from microbial populations to human societies. Research has shown, however, that …

If rock beats scissors and scissors beat paper, one might assume that rock beats paper too.
But this is not the case for intransitive relationships that make up the famous rock-paper …

We introduce an Interaction-and Trade-off-based Eco-Evolutionary Model (ITEEM), in which
species are competing in a well-mixed system, and their evolution in interaction trait space is …

Reflecting the major advances that have been made in the field over the past decade, this
book provides an overview of current models of biological systems. The focus is on simple …