BioMaths Colloquium Series - 2015/16
18 March 2016 - 3pm Maths Seminar Room
(room 224 Talbot Building 2nd floor)
Abstract
Game theory has a rich history across diverse academic fields, from economics to psychology. It has arguably been applied most successfully in Evolutionary Biology, explaining phenomena across multiple taxa, ranging from mating systems to boldness behaviours, with particular focus on the evolution and maintenance of co-operation in social systems.
Here, I explore the effect of spatial and temporal coloured environmental variability – so called in analogy with the dominant frequencies in visible light – on the spatially iterated Prisoner’s dilemma. Building on classic work by Nowak & May (1992), I introduced coloured temporal and spatial variability into the payoff defectors receive when meeting a co-operator, to investigate how this variability altered the proportion (and variability in this proportion) of co-operators found in a population.
Results show that introducing coloured environmental variability has an intriguing array of context-dependent effects on the maintenance of co-operation in a population, from promotion of co-operaton to its complete loss. This talk is deliberately aimed at a general audience and includes at least one analogy with a pop music video.
The discussions will continue over biscuits and tea/coffee after the seminar.
Here, I explore the effect of spatial and temporal coloured environmental variability – so called in analogy with the dominant frequencies in visible light – on the spatially iterated Prisoner’s dilemma. Building on classic work by Nowak & May (1992), I introduced coloured temporal and spatial variability into the payoff defectors receive when meeting a co-operator, to investigate how this variability altered the proportion (and variability in this proportion) of co-operators found in a population.
Results show that introducing coloured environmental variability has an intriguing array of context-dependent effects on the maintenance of co-operation in a population, from promotion of co-operaton to its complete loss. This talk is deliberately aimed at a general audience and includes at least one analogy with a pop music video.
The discussions will continue over biscuits and tea/coffee after the seminar.
Hope to see many of you!
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