Joint Meeting of Asian Conference for Mathematical Biology and Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology (ACMB-JSMB2025)

Chair:Hisashi Ohtsuki(SOKENDAI, Japan), Yohsuke Murase(RIKEN, Japan)

One of the main features that characterizes modern humans is their high prosociality. Humans are sometimes referred to as cooperative species, and it is no doubt that one of the reasons of current prosperity of human beings on the globe can be attributed to their ability to establish large scale cooperation. For these types of cooperation, we need cognitively demanding mechanisms such as reciprocity, coordination, and punishment. In this session, we would like to provide cutting-edge theories that explain how human cooperation has evolved and has been sustained stably in human populations. In those studies, evolutionary game theory models have been intensively used, and we would like to focus on mathematical aspects of those models, too.