Evolutionary dynamics in structured populations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1537, 2010, Pages 19-30

  Nowak, Martin A ^a   Tarnita, Corina E ^a   Antal, Tibor ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of cooperation; Evolutionary game theory; Evolutionary graph theory; Games on sets; Spatial games; Spatial selection

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GAME THEORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 75449114445     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0215     Document Type: Review

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