READING COPY: Clean, solid copy with extensive underlining and notations throughout. Still easily readable. Pages are age toned. Cover has moderately have surface wear including rubbing and thumb bends. Binding is solid with two creases. Clearly used, but a functional copy. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally. Seller Inventory # GD32402050036

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Title: Evolution and the Theory of Games

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Dust Jacket Condition: None as issued

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In this 1982 book, the theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is relevant whenever the best thing for an animal or plant to do depends on what others are doing. The theory leads to testable predictions about the evolution of behaviour, of sex and genetic systems, and of growth and life history patterns. This book contains a full account of the theory, and of the data relevant to it. The account is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, teachers and research workers in animal behaviour, population genetics and evolutionary biology. The book will also be of interest to mathematicians and game theorists; the mathematics has been largely confined to appendixes so that the main text may be easily followed by biologists.

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By applying game theory to the problems of population biology, the author has succeeded in inventing new and interesting ways of looking at populations and has developed a theory leading to testable predictions.

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