Towards a dynamics of social behaviour: Strategic and genetic models for the evolution of animal conflicts

Persistence of behavioural traits in animal societies rather than optimality of reproductive success is described in terms of the game-theoretic notion of evolutionarily stable strategy. Game dynamics provides a suitable framework to accomodate for the dynamic aspects of permanence and uninvadability, to model the evolution of phenotypes with frequency dependent fitness and to relate the strategic models of sociobiology to the mechanisms of inheritance in population genetics