Evolutionary Game Theory

Rating:
Summary: Not much usefull for practical purposes
Review: During the work on my master thesis ("Learning in strategic games") i bought several books about the topic. This one was the hardest to understand and to apply to anything practical. I guess this one is for "hard core" mathematicians.

Rating:
Summary: Not much usefull for practical purposes
Review: During the work on my master thesis ("Learning in strategic games") i bought several books about the topic. This one was the hardest to understand and to apply to anything practical. I guess this one is for "hard core" mathematicians.

Rating:
Summary: Good Coverage of Basics
Review: This book is a good and standard introduction to evolutionary game theory. Weibull covers basic definitions of evolutionary stability and variants, replicator and other selection dynamics, and multipopulation models. The exposition is clear and compact. It would certainly be useful for social scientists, as well as biologists seeking an introduction to evolutionary game theory. Standard noncooperative game theory is reviewed at the beginning, but this will probably not suffice as an actualy introduction to the field. It's best to bring some knowledge of basic noncooperative game theory to the table.

It is a fairly technical book, but that cannot be considered a drawback. That is the subject matter, and a good treatment cannot be non-technical.