Ray-Mukherjee, Jayanti and Mukherjee, Shomen
(2016)
Evolutionary stable strategy application of Nash equilibrium in biology.
Resonance : Journal of Science Education, 21 (9).
pp. 803-814.
ISSN 0973-712X
Abstract
Every behaviourally responsive animal (including us) make
decisions. These can be simple behavioural decisions such as
where to feed, what to feed, how long to feed, decisions related
to finding, choosing and competing for mates, or simply
maintaining one's territory. All these are conflict situations
between competing individuals, hence can be best understood
using a game theory approach. Using some examples of classical
games, we show how evolutionary game theory can help
understand behavioural decisions of animals. Game theory
(along with its cousin, optimality theory) continues to provide
a strong conceptual and theoretical framework to ecologists
for understanding the mechanisms by which species coexist.
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