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Evolutionarily stable strategies in diploid populations with general inheritance patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

W. G. S. Hines*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph
D. T. Bishop*
Affiliation:
University of Utah
*
Postal address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada N1G 2W1.
∗∗ Postal address: Department of Medical Biophysics and Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, U.S.A.

Abstract

A simple argument demonstrates that the mean strategy of a diploid sexual population at evolutionary equilibrium can be expected to be an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) in the formal sense. This result follows under a wide set of models of genetic inheritance of strategy (including sexual selection) provided that the ESS is both attainable and maintainable.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1983 

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Footnotes

Research supported by NSERC Operating Grant A6187.

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