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1、EvolutionaryGameTheory,NaturalSelection,andDarwinianDynamicsAlloflifeisagameandevolutionbynaturalselectionisnoexception.Gameshaveplayers,strategies,payoffs,andrules.Inthegameoflife,organismsaretheplayers,theirheritabletraitsprovidestrategies,theirbirthsanddeathsare

2、thepayoffs,andtheenvironmentsetstherules.TheevolutionarygametheorydevelopedinthisbookprovidesthetoolsnecessaryforunderstandingmanyofNature’smysteries.Theseincludecoevolution,speciation,andextinctionaswellasthemajorbiologicalquestionsregardingfitofformandfunction,div

3、ersityoflife,processionoflife,andthedistributionandabundanceoflife.MathematicsfortheevolutionarygamearedevelopedbasedonDarwin’spostulatesleadingtotheconceptofafitnessgeneratingfunction(G-function).TheG-functionisatoolthatsimplifiesnotationandplaysanimportantroleinthe

4、developmentoftheDarwiniandynamicsthatdrivenaturalselection.NaturalselectionmayresultinspecialoutcomessuchastheevolutionarilystablestrategyorESS.AnESSmaximumprincipleisformulatedanditsgraphicalrepresentationasanadaptivelandscapeilluminatesconceptssuchasadaptation,Fi

5、sher’sFundamentalTheoremofNaturalSelection,andthenatureoflife’sevolutionarygame.ThomasL.VincentisProfessorEmeritusofAerospaceandMechanicalEngineeringattheUniversityofArizona.Hismainresearchinterestsareintheareasofnonlinearcontrolsystemdesign,optimalcontrolandgameth

6、eory,andevolutionandadaptationofbiologicalsystems.Hehas153publicationsincluding79journalarticlesand8books.JoelS.BrownisaProfessorofBiologyattheUniversityofIllinoisatChicago.Hismainresearchinterestslieinapplyingconceptsfromnaturalselectiontobehavioral,population,and

7、communityecologywithapplicationstoconservationbiology.Specificinterestsincludetheecologyoffearthatstudiestheecologicalandevolutionaryimplicationsofthenon-lethaleffectsofpredatorsonprey.Hehas102publications,including88journalarticles.EvolutionaryGameTheory,NaturalSel

8、ection,andDarwinianDynamicsTHOMASL.VINCENTAerospaceandMechanicalEngineeringUniversityofArizonaJOELS.BROWNBiologicalSciencesUniversityofIllinoisat