Rock is wrapped by paper, paper is cut by scissors and scissors are crushed by rock. This
simple game is popular among children and adults to decide on trivial disputes that have no …

Prevalence of cooperation within groups of selfish individuals is puzzling in that it contradicts
with the basic premise of natural selection. Favoring players with higher fitness, the latter is …

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that
transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in …

Game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from biology to
behavioral sciences to economics. In its evolutionary form and especially when the …

A fundamental aspect of all biological systems is cooperation. Cooperative interactions are
required for many levels of biological organization ranging from single cells to groups of …

Robert May's seminal book has played a central role in the development of ecological
science. Originally published in 1976, this influential text has overseen the transition of …

We study evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations. We analyze an evolutionary
process, which we call pairwise comparison, for which we adopt the ubiquitous Fermi …

We introduce a model in which individuals differ in the rate at which they seek new
interactions with others, making rational decisions modeled as general symmetric two-player …

We study evolutionary games on graphs. Each player is represented by a vertex of the
graph. The edges denote who meets whom. A player can use any one of n strategies …

Evolutionary game theory is designed to capture the essentials of the characteristic
interactions among individuals. Its most prominent application is the quest for the origins and …