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Optima for animals /
Optimization theory is designed to find the best ways of doing things. The structures of animals, their movements, their behavior, and their life histories have all been shaped by the optimizing processes of evolution or of learning by trial and error. In this revised edition of R. McNeil Alexander&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1996.
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| Edición: | Rev. ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Optima for animals / |c R. McNeill Alexander. |
| 250 | |a Rev. ed. | ||
| 260 | |a Princeton, N.J. : |b Princeton University Press, |c c1996. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (viii, 169 p.) | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Optimization and evolution -- Maxima and minima -- Optima for aircraft -- Fitting lines -- The best shape for cans -- The shortest path -- Optimum structures -- Tubular bones -- Strengths of bones -- Compound eyes -- Eggshells -- Semicircular canals -- Herbivore guts -- Optimum movements -- Bounding flight -- High jumping -- Walking and running -- Gaits of dogs and sheep -- Gaits for tortoises -- Optimum behaviour -- Choosing worms -- Food for a moose -- When to give up -- Ideal free ducks -- Two-armed bandits -- Hunger and thirst -- Gamble when desperate -- Hunting lions -- Territories -- Discretion or valour -- Optimum life-styles -- How many eggs? -- When to make queens -- Growing or breeding -- Breeding and survival -- Sex ratios -- A battle of the sexes -- Parents and cuckolders -- Dangers and difficulties -- What is optimized? -- What is possible? -- What can go wrong? -- Criticisms -- Mathematical summary -- Maxima of functions of one variable -- Maxima of functions of several variables -- Maxima of functions with constraints -- Linear programming -- Maximum of the smaller of two alternatives -- Calculus of variations -- The Pontryagin method -- Dynamic programming -- Evolutionarily stable strategies -- Catastrophe theory. | |
| 520 | |a Optimization theory is designed to find the best ways of doing things. The structures of animals, their movements, their behavior, and their life histories have all been shaped by the optimizing processes of evolution or of learning by trial and error. In this revised edition of R. McNeil Alexander's widely acclaimed Optima for Animals, we see how extraordinarily diverse branches of biology are illuminated by the powerful methods of optimization theory. The mathematics involved is explained very simply, with biology students in mind, but the book is not just for them. It is also for professionals, ranging from teachers to researchers. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Evolution (Biology) |x Mathematical models. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematical optimization. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Évolution (Biologie) |x Modèles mathématiques. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Optimisation mathématique. | |
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