evolutionarily stable strategy

noun

Etymology

Coined by British biologist John Maynard Smith in 1972 in his paper Game Theory and The Evolution of Fighting.

Definitions

  1. 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

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