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Evolutionary Game Theory, Natural Selection, and Darwinian Dynamics

By Joel S. Brown , Thomas L. Vincent

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521841704, 9780521841702
Open Library ID
OL22625381M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5603960 bytes)
Pages
401\401
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

I am not a biologist, but an engineer interested in evolution and mathematics.The mathematics of the book is very easy, the only (very) confusing issue are the indices. The G-function is introduced a bit ad-hoc, but as a definition, this might not matter much. It is very clear, that by allowing the strategy to vary, one can get optimal (at least stationary) values. The strategy dynamics are introduced in a rather confusing way, without much of an explanation.For the rest, it seems, that 80% of the book are numerical examples, which seem to prove mostly, that with nonlinear differential equations, the behaviour of (e.g.) stationary points can vary quite a bit, if the coefficients in those equations are changed.Maybe a professional biologist gets a lot out of this book, but for the interested layman it offers little (except upteen numerical examples, see above)

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