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Flipping the intuition for games on dynamic networks

A recent work provides a mathematical framework for studying how changes in network structure over time can influence cooperative behavior.

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Fig. 1: Evolution of cooperation on dynamic networks.

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Allen, B. Flipping the intuition for games on dynamic networks. Nat Comput Sci 3, 737–738 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00513-3

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