Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 396 g
Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 396 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-854783-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Life is often a matter of gambles, pay-offs, and trade-offs, just like a game. This book takes us on a tour through the games and computer simulations that are helping us to understand the ecology, evolution, and behaviour of real life - from cat and mouse to cellular automata, from the battle of the sexes to artificial life, from poker to the prisoner's dilemma.
No other book explains so well why scientific observations and insights can be structured as the rules of a survival game, and what happens when they are assembled on a computer or in the mind and allowed to run. With a delightful personal style, the author specifically looks at genetics, population ecology, evolution, and animal behaviour and discusses the often surprising outcomes when the name of the game is life.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction: Mendel's legacy
- 1: Self-replicating automata and artificial life
- 2: Population ecology and chaos
- 3: Random drift and chain reactions
- 4: Population genetics
- 5: Evolution and sex
- 6: Evolutionary game theory
- 7: Reciprocity and the evolution of cooperation
- 8: Playback
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
