Essential conditions for evolution of communication within a species

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 768-774

  Feigel, Alexander ^a  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Affective behaviour; Correlated responses; Evolutionary game theory; Intelligence; Mutual information; Population size fluctuations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HOMINID; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION SIZE; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 52149123149     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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