On Quantitative Comparative Research in Communication and Language Evolution [0.03%]
通信和语言进化定量比较研究中存在的问题
D Kimbrough Oller,Ulrike Griebel
D Kimbrough Oller
Quantitative comparison of human language and natural animal communication requires improved conceptualizations. We argue that an infrastructural approach to development and evolution incorporating an extended interpretation of the distinct...
Jorge Wagensberg
Jorge Wagensberg
The ultimate utility of science is widely agreed upon: the comprehension of reality. But there is much controversy about what scientific understanding actually means, and how we should proceed in order to gain new scientific understanding. ...
Universal Grammar and Biological Variation: An EvoDevo Agenda for Comparative Biolinguistics [0.03%]
普遍语法与生物变异：比较生物语言学的进化发育纲领
Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Cedric Boeckx
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Recent advances in genetics and neurobiology have greatly increased the degree of variation that one finds in what is taken to provide the biological foundations of our species-specific linguistic capacities. In particular, this variation s...
Richard R Nelson
Richard R Nelson
My brand of evolutionary economics recognizes, highlights, that modern economies are always in the process of changing, never fully at rest, with much of the energy coming from innovation. This perspective obviously draws a lot from Schumpe...
Public goods with punishment and abstaining in finite and infinite populations [0.03%]
具有惩罚和弃权的公共物品模型在有限种群和无限种群中的研究
Christoph Hauert,Arne Traulsen,Hannelore Brandt et al.
Christoph Hauert et al.
The evolution and maintenance of cooperation in human and animal societies challenges various disciplines ranging from evolutionary biology, to anthropology, social sciences and economics. In social interactions, cooperators increase the we...
Jonathan D Victor
Jonathan D Victor
Understanding how neurons represent, process, and manipulate information is one of the main goals of neuroscience. These issues are fundamentally abstract, and information theory plays a key role in formalizing and addressing them. However,...
Twenty Years of Delila and Molecular Information Theory: The Altenberg-Austin Workshop in Theoretical Biology Biological Information, Beyond Metaphor: Causality, Explanation, and Unification Altenberg, Austria, 11-14 July 2002 [0.03%]
Delila系统与分子信息论的二十年：理论生物学奥斯特温和奥斯汀研讨会——生物信息学，超越隐喻：因果关系、解释及统一奥地利阿尔滕贝格，2002年7月11－14日
Thomas D Schneider
Thomas D Schneider
A brief personal history is given about how information theory can be applied to binding sites of genetic control molecules on nucleic acids. The primary example used is ribosome binding sites in Escherichia coli. Once the sites are aligned...