The tactics of mate choice was studied by means of a simple neural network model. A female was assessing 6 or 43 males and optimal choice was assumed to be the largest male of the set of males visited. This was run over a set of variances in male traits from very low as in fluctuating asymmetry to v
Neural orchestration of mate-choice plasticity in songbirds
β Scribed by Keith W. Sockman
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Volume
- 148
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8375
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