Altruistic suicide model This multi-agent model investigates the evolution of the most extreme form of altruism, the suicide for the good of others. The model shows again that structuring the population into groups is sufficient for this purpose. Even here, neither kinship nor competition between groups are necessary.
The standard setup, as also given initially, usually leads to a stable population of agents with high sacrifice willingness. The sacrifice willingness (= p-sacrifice = probability of sacrificing oneself) is then actually greater than the rate of martyrs actually necessary for the survival of the group (= threshold).
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