Altruism Amongst Spatial Predator-Prey Animats

Understanding the emergence or suppression of altruism is an important step towards understanding real-life many-agent systems. We explore the relative survival traits of spatial animats in our predator-prey model and find some quantifiable emergent advantages of altruistic behaviour on the part of individual animats.

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