Table of contnents
| 1. Theoretician's Laboratory | An introduction evolutionary thinking and mathematical modeling |
| 2.Animal Conflict | ESS analysis applied to Hawk-Dove and related models. |
| 3. Alturism & Inclusive Fitness | The problem of altruism, the role of assortative interaction, and Hamilton's rule |
| 4. The Evolution of Reciprocity | Contingent cooperation and repeated games. Axelrod and Hamilton's model and extensions to larger groups. Indirect reciprocity. |
| 5. Animal Communication | How honest signals can evolve. Discrete and continuous Sir Philip Sidney game. Cheap talk. The green beard problem. The evolution of social learning. |
| 6. Selection Among Groups | Price's Equation and the multi-level selection approach. Equivalence to neighbor-modulated fitness. Why interdemic group selection is usually weak. |
| 7. Sex Allocation | Fisher's theory of sex allocation and the Shaw Moller theorem. Trivers Willard effect, and local mate competition. Concepts of reproductive value and multidimensional linear stability analysis. |
| 8. Sexual Selection | Quantitative genetic and game theoretic models of sexual selection and the coevolution of female mate preferences. |
| Appendix | Some useful mathematical tricks |