evolutionarily stable strategy
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- evolutionary stable strategy (misconstruction)
Etymology[edit]
Coined by British biologist John Maynard Smith in 1972 in his paper Game Theory and The Evolution of Fighting.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
evolutionarily stable strategy (plural evolutionarily stable strategies)
- (evolutionary theory, game theory) A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and unlikely to be replaced by another strategy.
- Synonym: ESS
- 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
- To be an evolutionarily stable strategy, remember, a strategy must not be invadable, when it is common, by a rare mutant strategy.
- 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
- An evolutionarily stable strategy is a strategy that does well against copies of itself.
Derived terms[edit]
- ESS (initialism)
Translations[edit]
Translations
|