evolutionarily stable strategy
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evolutionarily stable strategy
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Coined by British biologist John Maynard Smith in 1972 in his paper Game Theory and The Evolution of Fighting.
noun evolutionarily stable strategies · evolutionary stable strategy
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A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and not foreseeably likely to be replaced by another strategy.
1986 John Maynard Smith: Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge University Press
In this chapter, I introduce the concept of an "evolutionarily stable strategy", or ESS. A 'strategy' is a behavioural phenotype; i.e. it is a specification of what an individual will do in any situation in which
Similar: ESS
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| Français | stratégie évolutivement stable |
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