| Abstract | In the Hawk-Dove game, where two individuals compete over a resource,
fully cooperating or "dove"-like behavior is vulnerable to
invasion by defecting or "hawk"-like behavior, a fact also known
as the "tragedy of the commune'". This tragedy can be overcome by
so-called "bourgeois" or "anarchist" players which
conventionally base their behavior on an external sign. However, it
is not a-priori clear how such behavior could evolve through natural
selection alone. In this paper it is shown, through simulations,
that it can be the result of a more general strategy by which
adaptive agents learn and establish a globally shared conventional
code. |
