Good strategy or evolutionarily stable strategy?

R Dawkins - Sociobiology: beyond nature/nurture?, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
A strategy is an unconscious behavior program, a candidate for natural selection in
competition with alternative strategies. The 'evolutionarily stable strategy'(ESS) is the result …

A G-function approach to fitness minima, fitness maxima, evolutionarily stable strategies and adaptive landscapes

Y Cohen, TL Vincent, JS Brown - Evolutionary Ecology …, 1999 - evolutionary-ecology.com
We use a fitness-generating function (G-function) approach to evolutionary games. The G-
function allows for simultaneous consideration of strategy dynamics and population …

Evolutionary stability concepts in a stochastic environment

XD Zheng, C Li, S Lessard, Y Tao - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Over the past 30 years, evolutionary game theory and the concept of an evolutionarily stable
strategy have been not only extensively developed and successfully applied to explain the …

Evolutionary and dynamic stability in continuous population games

I Eshel, E Sansone - Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2003 - Springer
Asymptotic stability under the replicator dynamics over a continuum of pure strategies is
shown to crucially depend on the choice of topology over the space of mixed population …

Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness

J Van Cleve - … transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) analysis pioneered by Maynard Smith and Price took off
in part because it often does not require explicit assumptions about the genetics and …

Are Cournot and Bertrand equilibria evolutionary stable strategies?

CZ Qin, C Stuart - Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1997 - search.ebscohost.com
Shows that classical Cournot equilibrium sometimes satisfies a stronger notion of
equilibrium than an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS). Failure of the classical Bertrand …

Genetic algorithms and non-ESS solutions to game theory models

S Hamblin, PL Hurd - Animal Behaviour, 2007 - Elsevier
Game theory is not only the primary method for the formal modelling of interactions between
individuals, but it also underlies how biologists think about social interactions on an intuitive …

Random evolutionarily stable strategies

D Auslander, J Guckenheimer, G Oster - Theoretical Population Biology, 1978 - Elsevier
The game-theoretic notion of competitive equilibrium has frequently been used to evaluate
evolutionary trends. These discussions have centered mostly on the static situation, ignoring …

Optimality modeling in a suboptimal world

A Potochnik - Biology & Philosophy, 2009 - Springer
The fate of optimality modeling is typically linked to that of adaptationism: the two are thought
to stand or fall together (Gould and Lewontin, Proc Relig Soc Lond 205: 581–598, 1979; …

The status of the conditional evolutionarily stable strategy

JL Tomkins, W Hazel - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2007 - cell.com
The conditional evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) has proven to be a versatile tool for
understanding the production of alternative phenotypes in response to environmental cues …