Game Theory and Animal Behavior - Brossura

Reeve, Hudson Kern; Dugatkin, Lee Alan

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ISBN 10: 0195137906 ISBN 13: 9780195137903

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press USA, 1998

Riassunto

This will be the first book since 1982 dedicated to ethological game theory models, despite the fact that game theory has played a major role in reshaping the study of animal behavior over the past thirty years. The editors and chapter authors are well chosen to give an authoritative and widely accessible overview of the advances in the area.

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an authoritative and widely accessible overview of the advances in this area (Ethology, Ecology, Evolution)

Describes many interesting examples of animal behaviour, including games between foraging producers and scroungers, reciprocal grooming in impala, territorial defence by birds and spiders, animal communication, parent-offspring conflict, and colony founding by ants. There are many accounts of experimental tests of game theory models, along with clear discussions of the limitations of the game theory approach. The quality of writing (often a problem in edited volumes) is uniformly good. The chapter by R. Gomulkiewicz is especially important, because it connects game theory, other optimization methods, and quantitative genetics with a focus on an empirical strategy for detecting adaptation and constraint. ―Nature

The book is a worthwhile addition to graduate collections and some undergraduate collections emphasizing behavioral ecology, as most chapters are sufficiently general to be of use for a longer time than the typical symposium volume.―Choice

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Contenuti

• 1: Peter Hammerstein: What is evolutionary game theory
• 2: Luc-Alain Giraldeau and Barbara Livoreil: Game theory and social foraging
• 3: Lee Alan Dugatkin: Game theory and cooperation
• 4: Susan E. Riechert: Game theory and animal contests
• 5: Rufus A. Johnstone: Game theory and communication
• 6: Hudson Kern Reeve: Game theory, reproductive skew, and nepotism
• 7: Douglas W. Mock, Geoffrey A. Parker, and P.L. Schwagmeyer: Game theory, sibling rivalry, and parent-offspring conflict
• 8: Mart R. Gross and Joe Repka: Game theory and inheritance in the conditional strategy
• 9: Joel S. Brown: Game theory and habitat selection
• 10: Andrew Sih: Game theory and predator-prey response races
• 11: David W. Stephens and Kevin C. Clements: Game theory and learning
• 12: David Sloan Wilson: Game theory and human behavior
• 13: Richard Gomulkiewicz: Game theory, optimization, and quantitative genetics
• 14: Hudson Kern Reeve and Lee Alan Dugatkin: Why we need evolutionary game theory

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195137906
• ISBN 13: 9780195137903
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia