A population can be described as being in an evolutionarily stable state when that population's "genetic composition is restored by selection after a...

An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) that is impermeable when adopted by a population in adaptation to a specific...

In game theory, a stochastically stable equilibrium is a refinement of the evolutionarily stable state in evolutionary game theory, proposed by Dean Foster...

Some attractors (all global asymptotically stable fixed points) of the equations are evolutionarily stable states. A strategy which can survive all "mutant"...

bee allows for a dual-strategy mating system which produces an evolutionarily stable state resistant to invading strategies. These bees have also evolved...

set of evolutionarily stable states of the population. In general nondegenerate cases, there can be at most one interior evolutionary stable state (ESS)...

social behaviors such as this, it can evolve a stable pattern of behaviors known as an evolutionarily stable strategy (or ESS). This term, derived from economic...

considered stable over ecologically-relevant timescales. Ecosystems may transition from one stable state to another, in what is known as a state shift (sometimes...

nor an arbitrary social invention. Sociopathy may represent an evolutionarily stable strategy, by which a small number of people who cheat on social...

of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic...

confer some advantage to its host in order to persist and continue to be evolutionarily viable. Research has been conducted using aphids and the symbiotic bacteria...

where finite evolutionary steps would lead past the local 'flatness'. Second, a fitness maximum which is known as an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS)...

steady state. A steady state economy is an economy (especially a national economy but possibly that of a city, a region, or the world) of stable size featuring...

is first explained as a sociobiological hypothesis by finding an evolutionarily stable strategy that matches the observed behavior. Stability of a strategy...

designed to have happiness as our natural default" and so a state of depression is the evolutionary norm. The following hypotheses attempt to identify a benefit...

Hsp90 impairment revealed a new phenotype, reduced-eye phenotype, which was stably inherited without further HSP90 inhibition (https://doi.org/10.1101/690727)...

"post-civilized society" is not the stationary state of John Stuart Mill or Herman Daly, but it does have a stable population. As a young man in his twenties...

Mathematical models describe how signalling can contribute to an evolutionarily stable strategy. Signals are given in contexts such as mate selection by...

autonomy, stability, and differentiation. These distinguish the state from less stable forms of organization, such as the exercise of chiefly power." The...

Cooperation – Groups working or acting together Equilibrium selection Evolutionarily stable strategy – Solution concept in game theory Glossary of game theory –...

species comparing stable models of continuous character evolution to Brownian motion models, Elliot and Mooers showed that the evolutionary process describing...

throughout most of the world: In a liberal capitalist society, provided with a stable institutional and legal framework, an 'invisible hand' will ensure that...

strategies. Either the pure, or mixed, Nash equilibria will be evolutionarily stable strategies depending upon whether uncorrelated asymmetries exist...

Wakefield's influential 'Harmful Dysfunction' definition of disorder utilises evolutionarily selected effects to ground the concept of 'dysfunction' in the objective...

record, the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of its geological history. This state of little or no morphological...

(biology) Co-operation (evolution) Evolution of morality Evolutionarily stable strategy Evolutionary ethics Gene-centered view of evolution Sociobiology Rescue...

Evolutionary anachronism, also known as "ecological anachronism", is a term initially referring to attributes of native plant species (primarily fruit...

Ornithologists' Union recognizes six genera and eighteen species: Although the evolutionary and biogeographic history of Sphenisciformes is well-researched, many...

ceremonial events like state visits, there is a Daimler DS420 limousine. There are also a number of different cars in the Royal Stables, which are used on...

concurrently with language to make reliance on "cheap signals" (words) an evolutionarily stable strategy. The animistic nature of early human language could serve...