Optima for Animals: Revised Edition

by R. McNeill Alexander

Book Overview

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. McNeill Alexander's widely acclaimed Optima for Animals , we see how extraordinarily diverse branches of biology are illuminated by the powerful methods of optimization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691027986
• ISBN13: 9780691027982
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"