evolutionarily stable strategy
nounEtymology
Coined by British biologist John Maynard Smith in 1972 in his paper Game Theory and The Evolution of Fighting.
Definitions
A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and not foreseeably likely to…
A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and not foreseeably likely to be replaced by another strategy.
- To be an evolutionarily stable strategy, remember, a strategy must not be invadable, when it is common, by a rare mutant strategy.
- An evolutionarily stable strategy is a strategy that does well against copies of itself.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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