the situation is a dynamic equilibrium that is evolutionarily stable because no single color morph wins. This evolutionary version of the popular children's game of rock-paper-scissors has been ...

unwinnable cycle of rock paper scissors. A three-way competition that's been raging for millennia. Meet the side-blotched lizard, named for that patch of dark color on its side. These lizards are ...

And that loss of a color variety or two had further consequences ... along with the rock-paper-scissor game, have been studied in game theory). One of them was wearing a rock-paper-scissors ...

“What was particularly interesting was the pattern in how color morphs were lost,” Corl said. “Any time there was a loss, the yellow type–the sneaky males that mimic females–was the first to go. Thus, ...