Evolutionary Game Dynamics in a Finite Continental Island Population Model and Emergence of Cooperation

Evolutionary Game Dynamics, Cooperation, and Costly Punishment

A MODEL FOR EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF WORDS IN A LANGUAGE

Human language, over its evolutionary history, has emerged as one of the fundamental defining characteristic of the modern man. However, this milestone evolutionary process through natural selection has not left any ’linguistic fossils’ that may enable us to trace back the actual course of development of language and its establishment in human societies. Lacking analytical tools to fathom the cr...

The Emergence of Cooperation in Evolutionary Game Theory

Cooperation is a fundamental aspect of biological systems. The evolution of complex organism, intelligence and complex societies all depend on cooperative behavior. Yet it is not clear how cooperation can evolve through natural selection. This essay will review game theoretical models of cooperation following a chronological approach with the final aim to explore their connection to physics. Mo...

Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations.

We introduce a model of stochastic evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations which is similar to the familiar replicator dynamics for infinite populations. Our focus is on the conditions for selection favoring the invasion and/or fixation of new phenotypes. For infinite populations, there are three generic selection scenarios describing evolutionary game dynamics among two strategies. Fo...

Deterministic evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations.

Evolutionary game dynamics describes the spreading of successful strategies in a population of reproducing individuals. Typically, the microscopic definition of strategy spreading is stochastic such that the dynamics becomes deterministic only in infinitely large populations. Here, we present a microscopic birth-death process that has a fully deterministic strong selection limit in well-mixed p...