John Maynard Smith, Evolution and the Theory of Games (1973) p. 1.
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Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.
— John Maynard Smith on Evolutionary game theory
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About John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (January 6 1920 – April 19 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
About John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (January 6 1920 – April 19 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
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