Screen LibraryModeling populations of adaptive individuals /
"This book offers a new theory for modeling how organisms make tradeoff decisions and how these decisions affect both individuals and populations. Tradeoff decisions (or behaviors) are those that are optimize survival and include behaviors like foraging and reproduction. Existing theories have...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Monographs in population biology ;
63 |
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| Summary: |
"This book offers a new theory for modeling how organisms make tradeoff decisions and how these decisions affect both individuals and populations. Tradeoff decisions (or behaviors) are those that are optimize survival and include behaviors like foraging and reproduction. Existing theories have not painted a complete picture of tradeoff decisions because they only observe how the decisions of an individual affect them rather than how individuals impact, and are impacted by, the behavior of their communities. The authors' theory-which they call state and prediction based theory-uses individual |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-170) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691180496 0691180490 9780691195285 0691195285 |
| Index Number: | QH352 |
| CLC: |
Q145 Q141 |
| Call Number: | Q141/R152 |