Complexity Digest 2010.06 - 19.03

2010/03/12

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

Modeling Evolution: An Introduction to Numerical Methods, Oxford University Press Bookmark and Share

Summary:
Modelling Evolution outlines how evolutionary questions are formulated and how, in practice, they can be resolved by analytical and numerical methods. Following a general introduction to computer modeling, successive chapters describe "Fisherian" optimality models, invasibility analysis, genetic models, game theoretic models, and dynamic programming. A common chapter plan facilitates tuition and comprises an introduction (in which the general approach and methods are described) followed by a series of carefully structured scenarios that have been selected to highlight particular aspects of evolutionary modeling.