The evolution of strategy variation: Will an ESS evolve?

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1183-1193

  Orzack, Steven Hecht ^a   Hines, W G S ^b  

^a Fresh Pond Research Institute Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable state; Evolutionary stable strategy; Game theory; Genetic drift; Natural selection; Population size

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GAME THEORY; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 21044433059     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01770.x     Document Type: Article

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