
Game Theory and Animal Behavior
Published on 13. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-19-513790-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 Listed in Wildlife ActivistMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
547 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513790-3 (9780195137903)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Lee Alan Dugatkin | Hudson Kern Reeve
Game Theory and Animal Behavior
E-Book
03/2000
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€84.49
Available for download
Content
1. What is evolutionary game theory ; 2. Game theory and social foraging ; 3. Game theory and cooperation ; 4. Game theory and animal contests ; 5. Game theory and communication ; 6. Game theory, reproductive skew, and nepotism ; 7. Game theory, sibling rivalry, and parent-offspring conflict ; 8. Game theory and inheritance in the conditional strategy ; 9. Game theory and habitat selection ; 10. Game theory and predator-prey response races ; 11. Game theory and learning ; 12. Game theory and human behavior ; 13. Game theory, optimization, and quantitative genetics ; 14. Why we need evolutionary game theory