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Evolutionarily stable strategy: History, Motivation & Nash equilibrium

An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) that is impermeable when adopted by a population in adaptation to a specific environment, that is to say it cannot be displaced by an alternative strategy (or set of strategies) which may be novel or initially rare. Introduced by John Maynard Smith and George R. Price in 1972/3…

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Evolutionarily stable strategy topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Motivation and Nash equilibrium as prominent areas in the source structure around Evolutionarily stable strategy.

Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
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Extracted relationships
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Concept neighborhoods
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Bridge connections
77

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 25 topics
Overview · 17 topics
Motivation · 8 topics
Nash equilibrium · 8 topics
Vs. evolutionarily stable state · 4 topics
Human behavior · 3 topics
Prisoner's dilemma · 3 topics
Stochastic ESS · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

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Example
Hawk-dove
Intersects with
Subgame perfect equilibrium, Trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian equilibrium
Proposed by
John Maynard Smith and George R. Price
Subset of
Nash equilibrium
Superset of
Stochastically stable equilibrium, Stable Strong Nash equilibrium
Used for
Biological modeling and Evolutionary game theory

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Overview

History

Motivation

Nash equilibrium

Vs. evolutionarily stable state

Stochastic ESS

Prisoner's dilemma

Human behavior

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Evolutionarily stable strategy connects Entity context

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Evolutionarily stable strategy

Top relations

related to Vs. evolutionarily stable state · 3
Evolutionarily stable strategy → ESS, In, Once
Example · 1
Evolutionarily stable strategy → Hawk-dove
Intersects with · 1
Evolutionarily stable strategy → Subgame perfect equilibrium, Trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian equilibrium
Proposed by · 1
Evolutionarily stable strategy → John Maynard Smith and George R. Price
Subset of · 1
Evolutionarily stable strategy → Nash equilibrium
Superset of · 1
Evolutionarily stable strategy → Stochastically stable equilibrium, Stable Strong Nash equilibrium
Used for · 1
Evolutionarily stable strategy → Biological modeling and Evolutionary game theory

Important terminology

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Important terminology

ess strategy game nash stable strategies population equilibrium evolutionarily maynard theory smith price two players equilibria evolutionary evolution concept mutant

Evolutionarily stable strategy relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Evolutionarily stable strategy. Examples in this analysis include Evolutionarily stable strategy → Example → Hawk-dove and Evolutionarily stable strategy → Intersects with → Subgame perfect equilibrium, Trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian equilibrium. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Evolutionarily stable strategyExampleHawk-dove1.00infobox
Evolutionarily stable strategyIntersects withSubgame perfect equilibrium, Trembling hand perfect equilibrium, Perfect Bayesian equilibrium1.00infobox
Evolutionarily stable strategyProposed byJohn Maynard Smith and George R. Price1.00infobox
Evolutionarily stable strategySubset ofNash equilibrium1.00infobox
Evolutionarily stable strategySuperset ofStochastically stable equilibrium, Stable Strong Nash equilibrium1.00infobox
Evolutionarily stable strategyUsed forBiological modeling and Evolutionary game theory1.00infobox
anthropologyinstance ofwith applications in other fields0.80text
philosophyinstance ofwith applications in other fields0.80text
political science.In game-theoretical termsinstance ofwith applications in other fields0.80text
an ESS is an equilibrium refinement of the Nash equilibriuminstance ofwith applications in other fields0.80text
being a Nash equilibrium that is alsoinstance ofwith applications in other fields0.80text
a weak ESS or an evolutionarily stable set.Examples of differences between Nash equilibriainstance ofIt also allows for a natural definition of related concepts0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Evolutionarily stable strategy bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Stable, Strategies and Population. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Evolutionarily stable strategy, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Evolutionarily stable strategy with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Evolutionarily stable strategyHistory · splits 52 ⟂ 26
Evolutionarily stable strategyOverview · splits 60 ⟂ 18
Evolutionarily stable strategyMotivation · splits 69 ⟂ 9
Evolutionarily stable strategyNash equilibrium · splits 69 ⟂ 9
Evolutionarily stable strategyVs. evolutionarily stable state · splits 73 ⟂ 5
Evolutionarily stable strategyPrisoner's dilemma · splits 74 ⟂ 4
Evolutionarily stable strategyHuman behavior · splits 74 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Evolutionarily stable strategy

Nodes78
Edges77
Triples18
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025641
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Evolutionarily stable strategy to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Motivation & Nash equilibrium, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Evolutionarily stable strategy · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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