On the instability of evolutionary stable strategies in small populations

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-294

  Fogel, Gary B ^a   Andrews, Peter C ^a   Fogel, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATURAL SELECTION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Equilibrium; Evolutionary computation; Evolutionary stable strategies; Theoretical biology

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; INSTABILITY; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 0032557965     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(98)00068-4     Document Type: Article

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