Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered

Based on a conference held in Nov. 1999 at Bennington College."A Bradford book."The role of genetic inheritance dominates current evolutionary theory. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, several evolutionary theorists independently speculated that learned behaviors could also affect the direction and rate of evolutionary change. This notion was called the Baldwin effect, after the ps…

The Evolution of Cognition

"A Bradford book."In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a …

Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach

Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling.The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisci…

Tales in prose and verse

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Self-instruction for students in gas engineering. Being answers to questions …

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The Evolution of Morality

"A Bradford book."A consideration of whether the human capacity to make moral judgments is innate and, if so, what implications follow; combines philosophical discussion with the latest findings from the empirical sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience

An essential reference for the new discipline of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience that defines the field's approach of applying evolutionary theory to guide brain-behavior investigations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Evolutionary Programming IV: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on E…

"A Bradford book."March 1-3, 1995, San Diego, California Evolutionary programming is one of the predominate algorithms withing the rapidly expanding field of evolutionary computation. These edited contributions to the Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming are by leading scientists from academia, industry, and defense. The papers describe both the theory and practical application …

Exchange Rate Management under Uncertainty

These twelve essays take up economic management under flexible exchange rates in the presence of uncertainty. Nearly all of the contributions adopt a rational expectations framework, focusing on the stochastic aspects of the assumption and exploring the variability of, for example, output and prices in relation to the variability of various external disturbances.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliograph…

Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Orga…

"A Bradford book.""Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous, artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the r…