The Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Populations that Self-organize into Groups

This lecture explores the eco-evolutionary dynamics of populations that self-organize into groups, presented by Silvia De Monte at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. Part of the "Decisions, Games, and Evolution" program, the talk examines how cooperation emerges across biological scales from cells to societies. Learn about the organizing principles behind the evolution of cooperation through perspectives from biological communities, mathematical modeling, cognitive science, social network dynamics, and behavioral economics. The presentation contributes to understanding evolutionary phenomena including opinion dynamics, fairness evolution, and spiteful behavior within the framework of Evolutionary Game Theory. The lecture addresses how individual choices in social conflicts are affected by local environments and population network structures, how individual behavior evolution shapes population-level outcomes, and the role of learning in individual choice evolution.