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020 _a9781139173179 (ebook)
020 _z9780521623650 (hardback)
020 _z9780521625708 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aQH371
_b.H624 1998
082 0 0 _a576.8/01/5118
_221
100 1 _aHofbauer, Josef,
_d1956-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEvolutionary games and population dynamics /
_cJosef Hofbauer, Karl Sigmund.
246 3 _aEvolutionary Games & Population Dynamics
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1998.
300 _a1 online resource (xxvii, 323 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aEvery form of behaviour is shaped by trial and error. Such stepwise adaptation can occur through individual learning or through natural selection, the basis of evolution. Since the work of Maynard Smith and others, it has been realised how game theory can model this process. Evolutionary game theory replaces the static solutions of classical game theory by a dynamical approach centred not on the concept of rational players but on the population dynamics of behavioural programmes. In this book the authors investigate the nonlinear dynamics of the self-regulation of social and economic behaviour, and of the closely related interactions between species in ecological communities. Replicator equations describe how successful strategies spread and thereby create new conditions which can alter the basis of their success, i.e. to enable us to understand the strategic and genetic foundations of the endless chronicle of invasions and extinctions which punctuate evolution. In short, evolutionary game theory describes when to escalate a conflict, how to elicit cooperation, why to expect a balance of the sexes, and how to understand natural selection in mathematical terms.
650 0 _aEvolution (Biology)
_xMathematical models.
650 0 _aPopulation biology
_xMathematical models.
650 0 _aGame theory.
650 0 _aVolterra equations.
700 1 _aSigmund, Karl,
_d1945-
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521623650
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139173179
999 _c520475
_d520473