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Evolutionary games in natural, social, and virtual worlds / Daniel Friedman and Barry Sinervo.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance Available online
Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedman, Daniel, 1947- author.
- Sinervo, Barry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Game theory.
- Evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (436 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Authors Daniel Friedman and Barry Sinervo show how to use theoretical developments in evolutionary game theory to build useful models describing parts of the worlds we live in - the natural world of biology, the social world of politics, economics, etc., and the virtual world that is emerging from our connected electronic devices.
- Contents:
- Half title; Title; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; PART ONE Basics ; 1. Population Dynamics ; 1.1. Fitness ; 1.2. Tradeoffs and fitness dependence ; 1.3. Dependence on environment, density, and frequency ; 1.4. State space geometry ; 1.5. Memes and genes ; 1.6. Finite populations and randomness
- 1.7. Replicator dynamics in discrete time 1.8. Replicator dynamics in continuous time ; 1.9. Steady states and stability ; 1.10. Sexual dynamics ; 1.11. Discussion ; Appendix A: Derivation of the Fisher equation ; Appendix B: Replicator dynamics, mean fitness, and entropy ; Exercises
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-998117-5
- 0-19-046665-0
- 0-19-998116-7
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