Balancing sampling and specialization: An adaptationist model of incremental development

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1724, 2011, Pages 3558-3565

  Frankenhuis, Willem E ^a   Panchanathan, Karthik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Development; Differential plasticity; Evolutionary ecology; Life history; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SAMPLING; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 80054881959     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0055     Document Type: Article

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