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    The strategy's reproductive success, not the individual's... — Carmelics
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    Supports→In evolutionary game theory, strategies — not individual agents — are the true players.

    The strategy's reproductive success, not the individual's welfare, determines which strategies persist.

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    Game theory has been fruitfully applied in evolutionary biology, where species and/or genes are treated as players, since pioneering work by Maynard Smith (1982) and his collaborators. Evolutionary (or dynamic) game theory now constitutes a significant new mathematical extension applicable to many settings apart from the biological. Skyrms (1996) uses evolutionary game theory to try to answer questions Lewis could not even ask, about the conditions under which language, concepts of justice,

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