Dependence of adaptability on environmental structure in a simple evolutionary model

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 283-315

  Fletcher, Jeffrey A ^a   Bedau, Mark A ^b   Zwick, Martin ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Environment; Environmental structure; Evolution; Sensorimotor function; Shannon entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030298917     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971239600400304     Document Type: Article

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