Evolutionary Game Theory

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See also: Economics Ethics, Game Theory and Biology Evolution (biological) Evolutionary Economics Learning in Games

Recommended, big picture, non-technical:
• Karl Sigmund, Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

Recommended, big picture, technical:
• Herbert Gintis, Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction
• John Maynard Smith, Evolution and the Theory of Games [Review by Danny Yee]
• William H. Sandholm, Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics

Recommended, more advanced or specialized:
• Josef Hofbauer and Karl Sigmund, The Theory of Evolution and Dynamical Systems: Mathematical Aspects of Selection
• Larry Samuelson, Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection
• Karl Sigmund, The Calculus of Selfishness [Review: Honor Among Thieves]
• Eric Smith and Supriya Krishnamurthy, "Symmetry and Collective Fluctuations in Evolutionary Games", SFI Working Paper 11-03-010

To read:
• James Bergin and Barton L. Lipman, "Evolution with State-Dependent Mutations," Econometrica 64 (1996): 943--956
• Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
• Erick Chastain, Rustom Antia, Carl T. Bergstrom, "Defensive complexity and the phylogenetic conservation of immune control", arxiv:1211.2878
• Ross Cressman, Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games
• Aram Galstyan, "Continuous Strategy Replicator Dynamics for Multi--Agent Learning", arxiv:0904.4717
• Josef Hofbauer and Karl Sigmund, Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics
• Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd, Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed
• Jacek Miekisz
  • "Evolutionary game theory and population dynamics", q-bio.PE/0703062 [51 pp. lecture notes]
  • "Statistical mechanics of spatial evolutionary games", cond-mat/0210094
  • "Stochastic stability in spatial games", cond-mat/0409647 = Journal of Statistical Physics 117 (2004): 99--110
  • "Long-run behavior of games with many players", cond-mat/0409742
• Bryce Morsky and Erol Akçay, "Evolution of social norms and correlated equilibria", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 116 (2019): 8834--8839
• Cailin O'Connor
  • The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
  • "Why Natural Social Contracts are Not Fair" [PDF preprint from Prof. O'Connor]
• Gergely J Szollosi, Imre Derenyi, "Hierarchical meanfield theory of evolutionary games on structured populations", arxiv:0704.0357
• Arne Traulsen, Jens Christian Claussen, Christoph Hauert, "Stochastic differential equations for evolutionary dynamics with demographic noise and mutations", arxiv:1203.3367