How Adaptive Learning Affects Evolution: Reviewing Theory on the Baldwin Effect

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-310

  Sznajder, B ^a   Sabelis, M W ^a   Egas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Evolution of phenotype; Fitness landscape; Genetic variation; Innate behavior; Phenotypic variation; The Baldwin effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865539470     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9155-2     Document Type: Article

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