Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics

by Karl Sigmund and Josef Hofbauer

Book Overview

Every form of behavior 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 realized how game theory can model this process. Evolutionary game theory replaces the static solutions of classical game theory by a dynamical approach centered not on the concept of rational players but on the population dynamics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052162570X
• ISBN13: 9780521625708
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.7"