The Theory of Games and the Evolution of Animal Conflicts¶
Maynard Smith, J. (1974). The Theory of Games and the Evolution of Animal Conflicts. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 47(1), 209-221.
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Primes¶
- War Of Attrition
- In behavioral ecology, the war of attrition models displays between animals contesting territories or mates without escalating to combat — the dove-dove subgame of hawk-dove — and predicted display-duration distributions match field observations in dung flies and elephant seals.
This sourceIntroduces the war of attrition as an evolutionary contest and derives the mixed-ESS negative-exponential display-duration distribution.
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Maynard Smith models 'displays' as contact-free contests won by the longer persister, with territory contests as an example; it reports no dung fly or elephant seal data.
“the latter, defined as contests without physical contact in which victory goes to the contestant which continues longer, are analyzed in detail”
- In behavioral ecology, the war of attrition models displays between animals contesting territories or mates without escalating to combat — the dove-dove subgame of hawk-dove — and predicted display-duration distributions match field observations in dung flies and elephant seals.
Domain-specific¶
- Attrition Warfare
- Reasoning to an empty arsenal misplaces the breaking point, which is the will-threshold, not depletion to nothing. Not the game-theoretic "war of attrition." The evolutionary-game-theory model of symmetric bilateral attrition with a mixed-strategy ESS (Maynard Smith)
This sourceThe evolutionary war of attrition - the symmetric contest whose ESS is a mixed strategy over persistence times - which is the formal object this entry means to name.
- Reasoning to an empty arsenal misplaces the breaking point, which is the will-threshold, not depletion to nothing. Not the game-theoretic "war of attrition." The evolutionary-game-theory model of symmetric bilateral attrition with a mixed-strategy ESS (Maynard Smith)
- Dollar Auction
- . Patent and pay-to-play litigation — discovery battles and pre-trial motions where each side's spend is forfeit if it loses and the next motion looks cheap against the accumulated stake. Lobbying and rent-seeking contests — competitions for a prize (a contract, a regulatory favor) in which defeated competitors still forfeit their entire expenditure, the canonical all-pay political setting. Conflict studies and arms races — attritional conflicts and standards/arms races where the lagging side's prior investment is wasted unless it presses on, so each round's spend is genuinely loser-pays. War of attrition (continuous-time cousin) — the same incentive logic in another formal dress, where competitors pay continuously until one concedes
This sourceIntroduces the war of attrition as a continuous-cost contest resolved when one contestant concedes.
- . Patent and pay-to-play litigation — discovery battles and pre-trial motions where each side's spend is forfeit if it loses and the next motion looks cheap against the accumulated stake. Lobbying and rent-seeking contests — competitions for a prize (a contract, a regulatory favor) in which defeated competitors still forfeit their entire expenditure, the canonical all-pay political setting. Conflict studies and arms races — attritional conflicts and standards/arms races where the lagging side's prior investment is wasted unless it presses on, so each round's spend is genuinely loser-pays. War of attrition (continuous-time cousin) — the same incentive logic in another formal dress, where competitors pay continuously until one concedes
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