text: Apparently nobody told him that equilibrium thinking--the idea that in order to understand how individuals interact , it is often useful to ask what would happen if each individual was doing the best he or she could given what everyone else is doing--is almost as prevalent in . In fact , the really funny thing is that for the most part the bionomics program has already been Economics already is very similar to evolutionary theory , and vice versa .
  
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  Equilibrium thinking is quite prevalent in economics and may be relevant to evolutionary theory .