Biological adaptation and the mathematical theory of information

DOI10.1016/J.COMPEDU.2005.11.001MaRDI QIDQ1122541zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Smith

Publication date 1988

Published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2005.11.001

zbMATH Keywords

Shannon entropyadapted structuresaposematic behaviourbiota probabilitiescryptic behaviourenvironmental state probabilitiesinteracting subsystems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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