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Games of Life - Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour (Paperback)
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Games of Life - Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour (Paperback)
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Life is often a matter of gambles, pay-offs, and trade-offs, just
like a game. This book takes readers on a tour through the games
and computer simulations that are actually helping to advance
knowledge in such fields as ecology, evolution, and animal
behavior. Although the book deals with questions of vital
importance, like sex and survival, it does so in the lively,
entertaining spirit of game-playing. It starts with artificial life
and self-replicating automata, a topic ideally suited for a
computer-games approach. The book goes on to study pursuit games
between predators and prey, and chaotic motion and its role in
ecology. Games of chance and statistical paradoxes illuminate the
randomness in molecular evolution, while some bizarre double games
played by chromosomes help explain the laws of population genetics.
Other topics include courtship, ownership, partnership, and
brinksmanship--illustrated through the game of poker and computer
tournaments. No other book explains so well why scientific
observations and insights can be structured as the rules of a
survival game, and what happens when they are assembled on a
computer or in the mind and allowed to run their course. General
readers as well as professionals and students in ecological,
evolutionary, and behavioral studies will find this a fascinating
and informative work.
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