Thomas B, Pohley H J
Biosystems. 1981;13(3):211-221. doi: 10.1016/0303-2647(81)90062-9.
On the basis of some principles from the philosophy of science, the inadequacy of the ESS-theory as introduced by Maynard Smith and Price as a biological theory is discussed, and an improved ESS-theory for finite populations is presented which can adopt the ideas of the original formalism, although modified. Resulting are explicit conditions on the population sizes that ensure certain strategies to be evolutionarily stable.
基于科学哲学的一些原理，讨论了梅纳德·史密斯和普莱斯提出的ESS理论作为一种生物学理论的不足之处，并提出了一种适用于有限种群的改进的ESS理论，该理论虽然有所修改，但可以采用原始形式主义的思想。由此得出了关于种群大小的明确条件，这些条件确保某些策略在进化上是稳定的。
