Costs of learning and the evolution of mimetic signals

American Naturalist

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 321-332

  Kikuchi, David W ^a   Sherratt, Thomas N ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Bandit problem; Bayesian inference; Categorization; Exploration exploitation; Multicomponent signal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; MIMICRY; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MIMICRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MIMICRY; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84941207450     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/682371     Document Type: Article

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