The evolution of payoff matrices: Providing incentives to cooperate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1715, 2011, Pages 2198-2206

  Akçay, Erol ^a   Roughgarden, Joan ^b  

^a University of Tennessee and National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural dynamics; Evolutionary game theory; Hawk dove game; Prisoner's dilemma; Two tiered model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GAME THEORY; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; POLYMORPHISM; TIMESCALE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; GAME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; MOTIVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; MOTIVATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79959227466     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2105     Document Type: Article

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