Life histories with lottery competition in a stochastic
environment: ESSs which do not prevail

Eva Kisdi and Geza Mesz‚na

Theor. Pop. Biol.

Summary

We present examples for multiple ESSs, for ESSs which cannot
invade other established strategies, and for ESSs which cannot
be approached gradually in a lottery model with randomly
fluctuating adult survival. In case of multiple ESSs the outcome
of the evolution may depend not only on the initial population
but also on the historical sequence of mutations.