Dominance Sharing Assessment

Dominance Sharing Assessment evaluates the evolutionary dynamics of sharing and dominance by modeling iterated Hawk-Dove interactions to assess how resource holding potentials (RHPs), assessment strategies, and cost of fighting influence the evolutionary stability of strategies.

Key Features:

• Iterated Hawk-Dove Model: Uses an iterated version of the Hawk-Dove game to represent conflict resolution among individuals with varying RHPs.
• Numerical Simulations: Conducts extensive numerical simulations to determine conditions under which sharing or dominance strategies become evolutionarily stable.
• Resource Holding Potentials (RHPs): Examines how differences in RHPs affect the propensity for conflict versus cooperation between individuals.
• Cost of Fighting: Integrates explicit costs of fighting to evaluate their effects on conflict duration, outcomes, and subsequent relationship stability.
• Assessment Strategies: Explores limited assessment periods and alternative assessment strategies animals may use to estimate opponents' RHPs without engaging in costly fights.

Scientific Applications:

• Conflict resolution in resource competition: Analyzes strategies animals use to resolve contests over resources under varying RHPs and fighting costs.
• Evolutionary stability of social behaviors: Investigates conditions favoring sharing, dominance hierarchies, or alternative adaptive strategies using iterated game dynamics.
• Scenario simulation and comparative analysis: Simulates different ecological and behavioral scenarios to compare when cooperative versus competitive behaviors are favored.
• Theoretical exploration of social structure evolution: Supports theoretical studies on the evolution of conflict resolution mechanisms across species.

Methodology:

Implements an iterated Hawk-Dove game framework and extensive numerical simulations that vary RHPs, assessment strategies, and cost-of-fighting parameters to evaluate strategy stability.