Evolutionarily stable strategy

1972

Such was the time taken in peer-reviewing the paper for Nature that this was preceded by a 1972 essay by Maynard Smith in a book of essays titled On Evolution.

The 1972 essay is sometimes cited instead of the 1973 paper, but university libraries are much more likely to have copies of Nature.

1973

Price in a 1973 Nature paper.

The 1972 essay is sometimes cited instead of the 1973 paper, but university libraries are much more likely to have copies of Nature.

1974

Papers in Nature are usually short; in 1974, Maynard Smith published a longer paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

1976

Maynard Smith was jointly awarded the 1999 Crafoord Prize for his development of the concept of evolutionarily stable strategies and the application of game theory to the evolution of behaviour. Uses of ESS: The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The ESS was first used in the social sciences by Robert Axelrod in his 1984 book The Evolution of Cooperation.

1982

Maynard Smith explains further in his 1982 book Evolution and the Theory of Games.

1984

Maynard Smith was jointly awarded the 1999 Crafoord Prize for his development of the concept of evolutionarily stable strategies and the application of game theory to the evolution of behaviour. Uses of ESS: The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The ESS was first used in the social sciences by Robert Axelrod in his 1984 book The Evolution of Cooperation.

1999

Maynard Smith was jointly awarded the 1999 Crafoord Prize for his development of the concept of evolutionarily stable strategies and the application of game theory to the evolution of behaviour. Uses of ESS: The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The ESS was first used in the social sciences by Robert Axelrod in his 1984 book The Evolution of Cooperation.




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