Evolutionary Dynamics

Exploring the Equations of Life

Martin A. Nowak

  • 2006 Winner R.R. Hawkins Award, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition

Preface

1. Introduction

2. What Evolution Is

3. Fitness Landscapes and Sequence Spaces

4. Evolutionary Games

5. Prisoners of the Dilemma

6. Finite Populations

7. Games in Finite Populations

8. Evolutionary Graph Theory

9. Spatial Games

10. HIV Infection

11. The Evolution of Virulence

12. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer

13. Language Evolution

14. Conclusion

Further Reading

References

Index

  • Cover: Evolutionary Dynamics
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Jürg Christandl

Martin Nowak is Professor of Biology and of Mathematics at Harvard University. He is Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.