BI308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Public Goods Game, Evolutionarily Stable Strategy
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January 29th 2016 (last day the game we played was called public goods game ) Characteristics of games: players, roles: symmetrical (even players) , asymmetrical (uneven players) Strategies for parents giving food to offspring, or offspring trying to get food from parents. Pays offs may be very different for how things play out: numbers: two player game, n-player game(more than two, or variable between rounds, playing in the field: working against the population, choices affect you as in individual, strategies. Different ways to play the game (our game was, how much of to contribute) Discrete strategies (contribute all or none, only 2 options) Net benefit of the interaction between a pair of individuals. Fixed (what you put in you get out, always) vs. scrambled (depends on how many players are playing the game ex/ parental provision of nestling birds)
