Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics
Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics
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GBPEvery 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.
- Comprehensive treatment of ecological and game theoretic dynamics
- Invasion dynamics and permanence as key concepts
- Explanation in terms of games of things like competition between species
Reviews & endorsements
'… as a mathematical text on an important set of topics in theoretical biology, the book is superb. It is well organised and beautifully written. In choosing from the rich menu of mathematical topics broadly relevant to ecology, behaviour, evolution, and even theoretical immunology, it shows good taste.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'… [has] something for anyone interested in game models in organismal biology.' Marc Mangel, Nature
'The book is a must for any mathematician economist, or biologist working in Evolutionary Game Theory.' C. Alos-Ferrer, International Mathematical News
'This book can highly be recommended to mathematicians interested in applications in social sciences, biology, and population genetics.' Ethology
'… an excellent publication that helps to bridge one of the gaps between biologists and mathematicians.' David Boukai, Folia Geobotanica
Product details
May 1998Paperback
9780521625708
352 pages
246 × 189 × 19 mm
0.63kg
20 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction for game theorists
- Introduction for biologists
- Part I. Dynamical Systems And Lotka-Volterra Equations:
- 1. The logistic equation
- 2. Lotka-Volterra for predator-prey systems
- 3. Lotka-Volterra for two competitors
- 4. Ecological equations for two species
- 5. Lotka-Volterra for more than two populations
- Part II. Game Dynamics And Replicator Equations:
- 6. Evolutionarily stable strategies
- 7. Replicator equations
- 8. Other game dynamics
- 9. Adaptive dynamics
- 10. Asymmetric conflicts
- 11. More on bimatrix games
- Part III. More On Lotka-Volterra And Replicator Dynamics:
- 12. Hypercircles and permanence
- 13. Criteria for permanence
- 14. Replicator networks
- 15. Stability in n-species communities
- 16. Some low-dimensional ecological systems
- 17. Heteroclinic cycles and C-matrices
- Part IV. Population Genetics:
- 18. Discrete dynamical systems in population genetics
- 19. Continuous selection dynamics
- 20. Mutation and recombination
- 21. Fertility selection
- 22. Game dynamics for Mendelian populations
- Bibliography
- Index.
