Maturation and the evolution of imitative learning in artificial organisms

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-50

  Cecconi, Federico ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^b   Belew, Richard K ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age at maturity; Baldwin effect; Genetic algorithms; Genetic assimilation; Imitative learning; Latent energy environments (LEE); Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0002958254     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971239500400103     Document Type: Article

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