evolutionarily stable strategy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and not foreseeably likely to be replaced by another strategy.

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Coined by British biologist John Maynard Smith in 1972 in his paper Game Theory and The Evolution of Fighting.

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Nash equilibrium

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