Notes on two elementary evolutionary games

TL;DR

This paper explores elementary evolutionary games, linking Dawkins' 'Battle of the Sexes' to psychosocial parameters and analyzing a simple yet non-trivial game to understand evolutionary dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel perspective by connecting an evolutionary game to psychosocial coordinates and examines a basic game with complex implications.

Findings

Dawkins' game maps to psychosocial coordinates.

Analysis of a simple, non-trivial evolutionary game.

Insights into evolutionary dynamics of elementary games.

Abstract

In the first part of this note, we show (following Hofbauer and Sigmund) that Dawkins' "Battle of the Sexes" defines an interesting map from a space of economic parameters to psychosocial coordinates. The second part discusses an even more elementary game, but one which is not completely trivial.