The theory of evolution and dynamic systems mathematical aspects of selection

Preface Part I. Selection Dynamics and Population Genetics: A Discrete Introduction: 1. The biological background 2. The Hardy-Weinberg law 3. Selection and the fundamental theorem 4. Mutation and recombination Part II. Growth Rates and Ecological Models: An ABC on ODE: 5. The ecology of populations 6. The logistic equation 7. Lotka-Volterra equations for predator prey-systems 8. Lotka-Volterra equations for two competing species 9. Lotka-Volterra equations for more than two populations Part III. Test Tube Evolution and Hypercycles: A Prebiotic Primer: 10. Prebiotic evolution 11. Branching processes and the complexity threshold 12. Catalytic groth f selfreproducing molecules 13. Permanence and the evolution of hypercycles Part IV. Strategies and Stability: An Opening in Game Dynamics: 14. Some aspects of sociobiology 15. Evolutionarily stable strategies 16. Game dynamics 17. Asymmetric conflicts Interlude.