How Can Evolution Learn?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 147-157

  Watson, Richard A ^a   Szathmáry, Eörs ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PARMENIDES FOUNDATION   (Germany)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LEARNING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LEARNING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84962532442     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.11.009     Document Type: Review

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