Incorporating rules for responding into evolutionary games
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Most two-player games should be modelled as involving a series of interactions in which opponents negotiate the final result, according to research into the interaction between two organisms with a conflict of interest. This research analyzed negotiation in the context of a pair of animals feeding their young, but the qualitative conclusions are relevant to any game in which individuals can respond to each other's actions. It was found that the action selected as a result of negotiation may not be the best given that of the opponent.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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State-dependent life histories
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The theory of Markov decision process and state-dependent projection matrices are used to characterize and analyze optimal life histories. Life history describes the dependence of an animal's reproductive ability on its conditions such as territory quality, fat reserve and the state of immune system. Three models of life-history are developed to analyze the influence of maternal condition, status and choices on the phenotype of next generation. The limitations and structure of the three models are discussed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies
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An evolutionarily stable strategy model predicts oscillations in a three-morph mating system in the side-blotched lizards. Three phenotypes with distinct breeding patterns supplant each other cyclically in a variation of the scissors-paper-stone game. Population observations compared well with statistical probability models.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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