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Game theory is not only the primary method for the formal modelling of interactions between
individuals, but it also underlies how biologists think about social interactions on an intuitive …

Game theory has revolutionized the study of animal behavior. The fundamental principle of
evolutionary game theory--that the strategy adopted by one individual depends on the …

The possibility that animals learn a “developmentally stable strategy”(DSS)(Dawkins, 1980)
is an alternative in biological game theory to the idea that evolutionarily stable strategies …

These Notes grew from my research in evolutionary biology, specifically on the theory of
evolutionarily stable strategies (ESS theory), over the past ten years. Personally …

The application of game theory to evolutionary problems is so commonplace today, that few
stop to consider how it all began. John Maynard Smith and George R. Price's 1973 Nature …

Game Theory has been developed as a theory of rational behavior in interpersonal conflict
situations, with economics and the other social sciences being the intended fields of …

This paper contains a game theoretical analysis of animal contest situations which are
asymmetric in more than one aspect: two opponents may for example be imagined which …

Behavioral ecology is the study of" how behavior is influenced by natural selection in
relation to ecological conditions'(p. ix). The first edition of this book (1978) defined the field; …

Evolutionary game theory is used to show that if all members of a population use an
evolutionarily stable strategy, it does not imply that such a strategy will tend to evolve. It is …