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Game theory & animal behavior

edited by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Hudson Kern Reeve

(Oxford paperbacks)

Oxford University Press, 2000

  • : pbk

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Game theory and animal behavior

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Includes bibliographical references and index

First published in 1998

First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2000

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Game theory has revolutionized the study of animal behavior. The fundamental principle of evolutionary game theory-that the strategy adopted by one individual depends on the strategies exhibited by others-has proven a powerful tool in uncovering the forces shaping otherwise mysterious behaviors. In this volume, the first since 1982 devoted to evolutionary game theory, leading researchers describe applications of the theory to diverse types of behavior, providing an overview of recent discoveries and a synthesis of current research. The volume begins with a clear introduction to game theory and its explanatory scope. This is followed by a series of chapters on the use of game theory to understand a range of behaviors: social foraging, cooperation, animal contests, communication, reproductive skew and nepotism within groups, sibling rivalry, alternative life-histories, habitat selection, trophic-level interactions, learning, and human social behavior. In addition, the volume includes a discussion of the relations among game theory, optimality, and quantitative genetics, and an assessment of the overall utility of game theory to the study of social behavior. Presented in a manner accessible to anyone interested in animal behavior but not necessarily trained in the mathematics of game theory, the book is intended for a wide audience of undergraduates, graduate students, and professional biologists pursuing the evolutionary analysis of animal behavior.

目次

  • 1. What is evolutionary game theory
  • 2. Game theory and social foraging
  • 3. Game theory and cooperation
  • 4. Game theory and animal contests
  • 5. Game theory and communication
  • 6. Game theory, reproductive skew, and nepotism
  • 7. Game theory, sibling rivalry, and parent-offspring conflict
  • 8. Game theory and inheritance in the conditional strategy
  • 9. Game theory and habitat selection
  • 10. Game theory and predator-prey response races
  • 11. Game theory and learning
  • 12. Game theory and human behavior
  • 13. Game theory, optimization, and quantitative genetics
  • 14. Why we need evolutionary game theory

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