Shannon information and biological fitness

2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop - Proceedings, ITW

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 50-54

  Bergstrom, Carl T ^a   Lachmann, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DECISION THEORY; DNA; ECOLOGY; ENTROPY; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION QUANTITY; SHANNON INFORMATION;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 19544387747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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