Evolutionary and continuous stability

Ilan Eshel*

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Abstract

A strategy in a population game is evolutionarily stable if, when adopted by large enough a majority in the population, it becomes advantageous against any mutant strategy. It is said to be continuously stable if, when the majority slightly deviates from it, some reduction of this deviation becomes individually advantageous. This definition is meaningful if a continuum of (pure) strategies is available to each individual in the population. For that case, a necessary and a sufficient condition for an evolutionary stable strategy being a continuously stable strategy is analyzed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-111
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Theoretical Biology
Volume103
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jul 1983

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationMCS79-24310
National Institutes of HealthSROl GM10452-17 GM28016-02

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