Evolving the selfish herd: Emergence of distinct aggregating strategies in an individual-based model

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1618, 2007, Pages 1637-1642

  Wood, Andrew J ^a,b   Ackland, Graeme J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Flocking; Foraging; Genetic algorithm; Nash equilibrium; Predation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AMPHIBIAN; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TELEOST;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FORAGING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HERD; HERRING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TADPOLE;

CLUPEIDAE; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; STURNIDAE;

EID: 34447331397     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0306     Document Type: Article

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