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This chapter surveys some evolutionary games used in biological sciences. These include the Hawk–Dove game, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Rock–Paper–Scissors, the war of attrition, the Habitat Selection game, predator–prey games, and signaling games.
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This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programe under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 690817. VK acknowledges support provided by the Institute of Entomology (RVO:60077344).
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Broom, M., Křivan, V. (2018). Biology and Evolutionary Games. In: Başar, T., Zaccour, G. (eds) Handbook of Dynamic Game Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44374-4_31
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