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The main cause for skepticism concerning the biological relevance of evolutionary game theory as developed in the last two chapters is the implied asexual reproduction of the population. This criticism is overcome in the present chapter by assuming throughout that individuals in the large diploid population mate randomly and that each mating pair produce the same number of offspring (i.e. equal fecundity) in 1:1 sex ratio through Mendelian segregation. I feel strongly that the results contained here will convince all readers of the importance of ESS theory in population genetics.
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Cressman, R. (1992). Frequency-Dependent Evolution in a Randomly-Mating Diploid Species. In: Cressman, R. (eds) The Stability Concept of Evolutionary Game Theory. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49981-4_4
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