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evolutionary stable strategy

evolutionary stable strategy is the misconstruction 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

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What is evolutionary stable strategy the misconstruction of?
Evolutionary stable strategy is the misconstruction of evolutionarily stable strategy.

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