Strategy in the Real World · Behavior & evolution
Evolutionary Game Theory
Game theory without rational players: strategies that reproduce in proportion to payoff, evolutionarily stable strategies, the hawk–dove game, replicator dynamics, Axelrod's tit-for-tat tournaments, kin selection, and applications to markets and norms.
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Prereqs: Prisoner's dilemma; Repeated games. Next: Decision theory. Sources: Maynard Smith & Price, 'The Logic of Animal Conflict' (*Nature*, 1973); Robert Axelrod, *The Evolution of Cooperation* (1984); Martin Nowak, *Evolutionary Dynamics* (2006).Next: 1. The shift