Evolutionary dynamics of biological auctions

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-80

  Chatterjee, Krishnendu ^a   Reiter, Johannes G ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction theory; ESS; Evolutionary game theory; War of attrition

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; GAME THEORY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84155186268     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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