TY - JOUR
T1 - Synthesizing perspectives on the evolution of cooperation within and between species
AU - Barker, Jessica L.
AU - Bronstein, Judith L.
AU - Friesen, Maren L.
AU - Jones, Emily I.
AU - Reeve, H. Kern
AU - Zink, Andrew G.
AU - Frederickson, Megan E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This review arose from a satellite symposium at the 2014 International Society for Behavioral Ecology meeting. We thank T. Bilde and laboratory members, W. Koenig, C. Riehl, C. Stern, D. Queller, and two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments; and the Santa Fe Institute and University of California, Davis, for desks at which to write the manuscript. This work was supported by NIH 5K12GM000708-13 and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies—Marie Curie COFUND Fellowship (JL Barker); NSF DEB-1354155 (JL Bronstein); an NSERC Discovery Grant (MEF); NSF DEB-1354878, NSF IOS-1331218 and NSF DEB-1342793 (MLF); the Huxley Fellowship at the Rice University Department of BioSciences (EIJ); FF-1473 (HKR); and NSF IOS-1258133 (AGZ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s). Evolution © 2017 The Society for the Study of Evolution.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Cooperation is widespread both within and between species, but are intraspecific and interspecific cooperation fundamentally similar or qualitatively different phenomena? This review evaluates this question, necessary for a general understanding of the evolution of cooperation. First, we outline three advantages of cooperation relative to noncooperation (acquisition of otherwise inaccessible goods and services, more efficient acquisition of resources, and buffering against variability), and predict when individuals should cooperate with a conspecific versus a heterospecific partner to obtain these advantages. Second, we highlight five axes along which heterospecific and conspecific partners may differ: relatedness and fitness feedbacks, competition and resource use, resource-generation abilities, relative evolutionary rates, and asymmetric strategy sets and outside options. Along all of these axes, certain asymmetries between partners are more common in, but not exclusive to, cooperation between species, especially complementary resource use and production. We conclude that cooperation within and between species share many fundamental qualities, and that differences between the two systems are explained by the various asymmetries between partners. Consideration of the parallels between intra- and interspecific cooperation facilitates application of well-studied topics in one system to the other, such as direct benefits within species and kin-selected cooperation between species, generating promising directions for future research.
AB - Cooperation is widespread both within and between species, but are intraspecific and interspecific cooperation fundamentally similar or qualitatively different phenomena? This review evaluates this question, necessary for a general understanding of the evolution of cooperation. First, we outline three advantages of cooperation relative to noncooperation (acquisition of otherwise inaccessible goods and services, more efficient acquisition of resources, and buffering against variability), and predict when individuals should cooperate with a conspecific versus a heterospecific partner to obtain these advantages. Second, we highlight five axes along which heterospecific and conspecific partners may differ: relatedness and fitness feedbacks, competition and resource use, resource-generation abilities, relative evolutionary rates, and asymmetric strategy sets and outside options. Along all of these axes, certain asymmetries between partners are more common in, but not exclusive to, cooperation between species, especially complementary resource use and production. We conclude that cooperation within and between species share many fundamental qualities, and that differences between the two systems are explained by the various asymmetries between partners. Consideration of the parallels between intra- and interspecific cooperation facilitates application of well-studied topics in one system to the other, such as direct benefits within species and kin-selected cooperation between species, generating promising directions for future research.
KW - Competition
KW - cooperation
KW - interspecific interactions
KW - mutualism
KW - social evolution
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U2 - 10.1111/evo.13174
DO - 10.1111/evo.13174
M3 - Article
C2 - 28071790
AN - SCOPUS:85012928679
SN - 0014-3820
VL - 71
SP - 814
EP - 825
JO - Evolution
JF - Evolution
IS - 4
ER -