Communication, complexity, and evolutionary stability

Evolutionary complexity

Stochasticity and evolutionary stability.

In stochastic dynamical systems, different concepts of stability can be obtained in different limits. A particularly interesting example is evolutionary game theory, which is traditionally based on infinite populations, where strict Nash equilibria correspond to stable fixed points that are always evolutionarily stable. However, in finite populations stochastic effects can drive the system away...

Evolutionary stability and efficiency

‘One of the advantages of moral philosophy over game theory is that moralists give sensible advice to moral agents while game theory can give stupid advice to game theorists’ Ian Hacking.

Evolutionary games and communication

The question of human communication is a central one for Social Sciences : the problems raised by the notion of communication in general are interesting and important by themselves, but there maybe something more when the communication process takes place between entities of high cognitive level, which is typically the case when human communicates. Then, epistemological questions abound ; to me...

Complexity and stability revisited

Vincent A. A. Jansen* and Giorgos D. Kokkoris School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory, Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Since Robert May’s work on random community matrices it has been known that stability ...