How would the population be affected in the long term if humans started to choose specific genes(Physical traits, intelligence, Disease resistance, Longevity) for their children?
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> ELI5 How does NASH Equilibrium apply to Evolutionary Biology?
Well, people have been applying game theory to evolutionary biology for many decades. Afaik the more relevant concept in that context is the evolutionary stable strategy, which has a slightly more restrictive definition than the Nash equilibrium (that is, every ESS is a Nash strategy, but not every Nash strategy is an ESS).
> if humans started to choose specific genes(Physical traits, intelligence, Disease resistance, Longevity) for their children?
It depends how they choose them. Maybe visible traits would go in and out of fashion. Presumably the choices would change as people learn more about their impacts, e.g. people might stop choosing a specific gene that tends to increase height slightly if they also find out it increases the risk of certain medical conditions. Maybe governments would try and mandate or ban certain choices. I don’t really know what you’re looking for. This idea doesn’t really seem well defined enough to apply game theory to it.
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