Evolutionary games and two species population dynamics (Q1075974)

The authors study a two-species population where several strategies occur within each population, and fitness depends on the number of encounters both intra-specific and inter-specific. Their model generalizes both the traditional models of competition between two species based on the total numbers of each species, and also the ESS models for competition between individuals of the same species. The authors show how previous results can be obtained as special cases of their model, by restricting it to interspecific respectively intraspecific selection. In the general case, it turns out that systems that combine population dynamics with strategy evolution are more stable than one would expect looking at either effect separately.