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Sep 2026
Social comparison shapes the evolution of cooperation in structured populations
Human cooperation unfolds in social environments where individuals influence each other through payoff-based learning and social comparison, the tendency to evaluate fitness relative to others. However, it is still unclear how social comparison and population structure jointly shape cooperation. Here, we incorporate so...
Xiao-Jin Xiong, Qin Li, J. Kurths et al.
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