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Add MS 86676
- Record Id:
- 040-000491367
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000228.0x00014e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86676
- Title:
- Assymetric Games
- Scope & Content:
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Some items are undated.
Folder marked 'Asymmetric contest'. With drawing of small and large birds on the front cover, and further drawings inside.
- Memo to Maynard Smith from John Haigh; 3 Apr 1974. Enclosed is an article by John Haigh, 'Game theory and evolution'. Typescript.
- Handwritten manuscript entitled 'The logic of asymmetric contests'.
- Handwritten notes relating to 'Incomplete information games – the "relative size" game'.
- Handwritten notes relating to "bluff" calculations.
- Handwritten notes relating to games with variable RHP.
- Handwritten notes relating to 'Incomplete information games - the "absolute size" game'.
- Handwritten notes and equations.
- Handwritten notes relating to the territory game.
Loose items:
- Letter from Geoff Parker (Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool) to Maynard Smith, with 'Some notes for Maynard Smith on fighting strategy' by Parker; 16 Jul 1974.
- Letter from Geoff Parker to Maynard Smith, with 'Dung-fly data'; 9 Jan 1975.
- Handwritten notes and equations.
- John Maynard Smith, 'The theory of games and the evolution of animal conflicts', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 46 (1974). Proof.
Folder marked 'Asymmetric contests Geoff Parker'.
- Letter from Geoff Parker (Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool) to Maynard Smith; 19 Apr 1974.
- Letter from Geoff Parker to Maynard Smith, including alterations to the manuscript 'Assessment strategy and the evolution of fighting behaviour'. Also enclosed are the following manuscripts by Geoff Parker 'Evidence for an asymmetric "war of attrition"', 'Abilities to assess variations in payoff', and 'RHP bluff and real RHP'; 20 May 1974.
- Letter from Geoff Parker to Maynard Smith; 28 May 1974.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Geoff Parker; 28 May 1974.
- Letter from Geoff Parker to Maynard Smith; 20 Jun 1974.
- Letter from Geoff Parker to Maynard Smith; 4 Jul 1974.
- Handwritten letter from Parker to Maynard Smith, including 'Immediate solutions for the problem of simultaneous hermaphroditism in animals' (Typescript); 19 Aug 1974.
Folder marked 'Asymmetrical contests'.
- Letter from T.R. Halliday (Department of Zoology, Animal Behaviour Research Group) to Maynard Smith; 10 Sep 1974.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to T.R. Halliday; 20 Sep 1974.
- Letter from T.R. Halliday to Maynard Smith; 1 Oct 1974.
- Letter from T.R. Halliday to Huggett (Secretary to Maynard Smith), with Joint seminar programme for Department of Zoology, Animal Behaviour Research group and reply by T.R. Halliday; 1 Nov 1974.
- Letter from T.R. Halliday to Huggett (Secretary to Maynard Smith); 11 Nov 1974
- Handwritten letter to Maynard Smith from Geoff Parker, attached is the manuscript 'Shared resources'; 20 October 1974.
- Handwritten notes relating to unequal pay off and unequal RHP's.
- Handwritten notes 'On Bluff'.
- Handwritten notes relating to 'The graduated escalation game'.
- Handwritten notes relating to types of asymmetry.
- Handwritten notes relating to asymmetric games, hawks and doves with unequal RHP, uncertain information and Bluff.
Loose item:
- Maynard Smith, 'Evolution and the theory of games', annotated 'copy sent to American Scientist.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000491367 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86676 : Assymetric Games - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0080]/040-000491367
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 3 sub-folders and 5 loose items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1974
- End Date:
- 1975
- Date Range:
- 1974-1975
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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