Lecture 12 - Evolutionary Stability: Social Convention, Aggression, and Cycles

We apply the idea of evolutionary stability to consider the
evolution of social conventions. Then we consider games that
involve aggressive (Hawk) and passive (Dove) strategies, finding
that sometimes, evolutionary populations are mixed. We discuss how
such games can help us to predict how behavior might vary across
settings. Finally, we consider a game in which there is no
evolutionary stable population and discuss an example from nature.