Description

Overview:

In the first video segment, we analyze the population dynamics for a test-tube of cells that affect each others' likelihoods of replication when they collide. The particular example we use is a prisoner's dilemma, which has the almost paradoxical property that survival of the relatively most fit leads overall fitness to decrease. In the second video segment, we suggest that the population dynamics from the first segment can be related to an analysis that uses payoff matrices found in traditional game theory.

Subject:

Life Science, Ecology, Forestry and Agriculture, Mathematics, Geoscience

Level:

High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division, Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical, Adult Education

Material Type:

Lecture Notes

Author:

David Liao

Provider:

Look At Physics

Provider Set:

A Mathematical Way to Think About Biology

Date Added:

10/08/2012