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evolutionarily stable strategies

evolutionarily stable strategies is the plural of evolutionarily stable strategy.

Meaning of evolutionarily stable strategy

Noun

evolutionarily stable strategy (plural evolutionarily stable strategies)

  1. (evolutionary theory) A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and not foreseeably likely to be replaced by another strategy.
    • In this chapter, I introduce the concept of an "evolutionarily stable strategy", or ESS. A 'strategy' is a behavioural phenotype; i.e. it is a specification of what an individual will do in any situation in which it may find itself. An ESS is a strategy such that, if all the members of a population...1986 John Maynard Smith: Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge University Press
    Synonyms:
    ESS

Questions about evolutionarily stable strategies

What is evolutionarily stable strategies the plural of?
Evolutionarily stable strategies is the plural of evolutionarily stable strategy.

Words near evolutionarily stable strategies in the dictionary

  1. evolution of the gaps
  2. evolutional
  3. evolutionally
  4. evolutionaries
  5. evolutionarily
  6. evolutionarily stable strategies
  7. evolutionarily stable strategy
  8. evolutionary
  9. evolutionary biologist
  10. evolutionary biologists
  11. evolutionary biology

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