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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812259403321

Titolo

Game theory & animal behavior / / edited by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Hudson Kern Reeve

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770116-7

1-280-48089-0

0-19-802570-X

9786610480890

1-4237-3881-0

0-19-535020-0

1-60256-424-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

591.5/015/193

Soggetti

Animal behavior - Mathematical models

Game theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; ONE: What Is Evolutionary Game Theory?; TWO: Game Theory and Social Foraging; THREE: Game Theory and Cooperation; FOUR: Game Theory and Animal Contests; FIVE: Game Theory and Communication; SIX: Game Theory, Reproductive Skew, and Nepotism; SEVEN: Game Theory, Sibling Rivalry, and Parent-Offspring Conflict; EIGHT: Game Theory and Inheritance in the Conditional Strategy; NINE: Game Theory and Habitat Selection; TEN: Game Theory and Predator-Prey Response Races; ELEVEN: Game Theory and Learning; TWELVE: Game Theory and Human Behavior

THIRTEEN: Game Theory, Optimization, and Quantitative GeneticsFOURTEEN: Why We Need Evolutionary Game Theory; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Game theory has reshaped the study of animal behaviour. With this book, the editors present an overview of game theory models, their uses, and their strengths and weaknesses.