Cooperation and competition have a fitness face off in game theory. Evolutionary games are often visually represented as a payoff matrix (Fig. 1a), in which the payoff for the individual involved ...

Biologists have recognized that the Darwinian struggle for survival involves strategic interactions, and modern evolutionary theory has close links with game theory. Game theory got its start with ...

To study ecology without an understanding of evolutionary theory is to watch a sporting ... even the smallest intricacies of the game can be appreciated, even loved. So it is with ecology ...