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Animal Behaviour

Volume 29, Issue 1, February 1981, Pages 186-192
Animal Behaviour

Coyness, philandering and stable strategies

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Abstract

An example put forward by Dawkins to describe the evolution of strategies in the conflict of the sexes over parental investment is discussed by means of a simple dynamic system. It is shown that the equilibrium of the strategies is not evolutionarily stable, but equal to the time average of the endlessly oscillating strategies.

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