Functional ontogeny
By: [edited by] David McFarland.
Contributors: McFarland, David.
Series: Bioscience research reports.; 1
Publisher: Pitman Advanced Pub. Program
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Ontogeny.; Adaptation (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to functional analysis of behaviour / David McFarland; title: The Darwinian objective function and adaptive behaviour / Smith Freeman and David McFarland; title: Short-term behaviour and lifetime fitness / John McNamara and Alasdair Houston; title: Learning to improve the availability and accessibility of resources / Aaron Tovish; title: Some learning rules for acquiring information / Alasdair Houston, Alejandro Kacelnik, and John McNamara.