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    Evolutionary game models assume population-level averagin... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If the proportion of Fairmen falls below 33%, Fairmen tend toward extinction.

    Evolutionary game models assume population-level averaging, but real agents cluster spatially, enabling Fairmen to form local majorities below 33% global frequency.

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    • 1.Spatial clustering is empirically ubiquitous in nature—from bacteria biofilms to human settlement patterns—making non-spatial models unrealistic.
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    • 2.Local interaction dynamics can amplify minority strategies through network effects, allowing sub-threshold global frequencies to dominate locally.
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    • 3.Mean-field assumptions in standard evolutionary game theory mathematically eliminate the variance that spatial structure preserves, obscuring real outcomes.
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    • 1.Migration, mixing, and communication increasingly homogenize populations; spatial clustering is often temporary and insufficient to overcome global selection pressures.
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    • 2.The claim conflates local majority with evolutionary stability—local frequency clustering does not guarantee that 'Fairmen' strategies resist invasion long-term.
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    • 3.Many spatial models (voter models, replicator dynamics on graphs) still predict equilibria near global frequencies, limiting the practical magnitude of clustering effects.
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