Evolutionary Game Theory

Dr. Michael Bonsall is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD and held a Royal Society Fellowship in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Imperial College London. Dr. Bonsall’s research focuses on population biology, including population dynamics, community ecology, and evolutionary ecology; he also researches evolutionary dynamics of life history strategies, the role of spatial structure on shared enemy and competing enemy interactions, the effects of enrichment on the diversity of ecological communities, and more. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and currently serves as the subject editor for Evolution and Ecological Entomology.

Section I: Introduction to evolutionary game theory 1. What is game theory? 2. Relevancy to evolutionary biology 3. Illustrative evolutionary games Section II: Static games in evolutionary biology 4. Static evolutionary games 5. Non-cooperative games 6. Cooperative games Section III: Dynamic games in evolutionary biology 7. Dynamic games 8. Replicator dynamics Section IV: Spatial evolutionary games 9. Space and dispersal in evolutionary biology 10. Applications and examples of spatial games Section V: Differential games 11. Differential evolutionary games 12. Evolutionary cost functions Section VI: Adaptive dynamics 13. Adaptive evolutionary dynamics 14. Applications and examples of adaptive dynamics Section VII: Evolutionary invasion analysis 15. Introduction to evolutionary invasion analysis 16. Evolutionary implications