[net.bio] New interest group -- mathematical evolution theory

riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (05/04/85)

I saw this on our local Arpanet bboard and thought it might interest
some Usenetters.  Please reply to king@kestrel.ARPA, not to me.

> Subject: New interest group -- evolution
> From: king@Kestrel.ARPA
> 
> There has been a lot of interest in what I will call mathematical
> evolution theory.  This includes some game theory (for example the
> result that equal numbers of males and females should exist in any
> species in which each birth is the result of a mating) and some
> computer simulation work (for example the result that cooperation can
> evolve if and only if members of the species can recognize each other
> as individuals).  
> 
> I am sending this message to guage interest in the establishment of an
> interest group in this area.  
> 
> If anyone has an address that accesses a large number of csnet bboards,
> please tell me.
> 
> 					Dick