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Evolutionary Dynamics

and Extensive Form Games

Economic Learning and Social Evolution

General Editor

Ken Binmore, Director of the Economic Learning and Social

Evolution Centre, University College London.

1. Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection, Larry Samuelson,

1997

2. The Theory of Learning in Games, Drew Fudenberg and David

K. Levine, 1998

3. Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 2: Just Playing, Ken

Binmore, 1998

4. Social Dynamics, Steven N. Durlauf and H. Peyton Young,

editors, 2001

5. Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games, Ross

Cressman, 2003

Evolutionary Dynamics

and Extensive Form Games

Ross Cressman

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and

retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.

This book was set in Palatino by Interactive Composition Corporation (in L A T E X ) and was

printed and bound in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cressman, Ross.

Evolutionary dynamics and extensive form games / Ross Cressman.

p. cm. — (Economic learning and social evolution ; 5)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-262-03305-4 (hc. : alk. paper)

1. Game theory. 2. Evolution—Mathematical models. I. Title. II. MIT Press

series on economic learning and social evolution ; 5.

QA269 .C69 2003

519.3—dc21

2002038682