Animal minds: From computation to evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1603, 2012, Pages 2670-2676

  Thornton, Alex ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a   Grodzinski, Uri ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84865469843     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0270     Document Type: Article

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