Neuronal boost to evolutionary dynamics

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Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  de Vladar, Harold P ^a   Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,b  

^a PARMENIDES FOUNDATION   (Germany)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Darwinian neurodynamics; Evolutionary dynamics; Hebbian learning; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945250565     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2015.0074     Document Type: Article

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