Arms races between and within species¶
Dawkins, R., & Krebs, J. R. (1979). Arms races between and within species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 489-511.
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Primes¶
- Coevolution
- The structural insight is robust across substrates: a predator and its prey, a firm and its rivals, an exploit and its patch, a pathogen and an immune system, and a language and the minds that learn it all exhibit the same loop in which each move reshapes the conditions of the next, a generality Dawkins and Krebs (1979) developed in their arms-races treatment showing that asymmetries in the stakes of the contest (the "life-dinner principle") shape which side leads the escalation.
This sourceDevelops reciprocal-counteradaptation arms races and the "life-dinner principle," showing that asymmetric stakes (a lineage under strong selection out-evolving a weakly selected one) shape which side leads the escalation and that a best response must anticipate the provoked counter-response.
- The structural insight is robust across substrates: a predator and its prey, a firm and its rivals, an exploit and its patch, a pathogen and an immune system, and a language and the minds that learn it all exhibit the same loop in which each move reshapes the conditions of the next, a generality Dawkins and Krebs (1979) developed in their arms-races treatment showing that asymmetries in the stakes of the contest (the "life-dinner principle") shape which side leads the escalation.
- Competition
- It licenses reasoning about selection (the relatively fit are differentially retained), about escalation and arms-race dynamics (rivals invest ever more to maintain relative position, often dissipating the very surplus they compete for), about niche differentiation as an escape from head-to-head rivalry (move to where the payoffs are no longer coupled), and about when adding competitors helps versus harms a system.
This sourceDevelops reciprocal-counteradaptation arms races and the "life-dinner principle," showing that asymmetric stakes shape which side leads the escalation and how a best response must anticipate the provoked counter-response — the canonical treatment of escalation as ever-increasing investment to hold relative position.
- It licenses reasoning about selection (the relatively fit are differentially retained), about escalation and arms-race dynamics (rivals invest ever more to maintain relative position, often dissipating the very surplus they compete for), about niche differentiation as an escape from head-to-head rivalry (move to where the payoffs are no longer coupled), and about when adding competitors helps versus harms a system.
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