Chapter17
Biology and Games
In This Chapter
- Game theory in the wild
- Strategies that resist invasion
- How emotions keep us rational
- Games and neuroscience
It isn’t immediately evident that other living things play the kinds of games that we study in game theory, and even if they did, you might wonder what there is to be learned that’s useful. In this chapter, you not only learn that other creatures are very much involved in the sorts of games people usually think belong just to the human realm, but you also find out, much as in the animal kingdom, that our own biology shapes our strategic interactions.
While game theory purports to study rational ...
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