Allopatric divergence of cooperators confers cheating resistance and limits the effects of a defector mutation
K. A. Schaal, Y.-T. N. Yu, M. Vasse, G. J. Velicer
The paper shows that allopatric divergence of cooperators reduces cheater spread by limiting the range of cooperators a defector can exploit and altering mutation effects on social traits.
bioRxiv · Jan 7, 2021Evolutionary Biology