Signals: Evolution, Learning, & Information

by Brian Skyrms

Book Overview

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools -- theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and introduces a new model of learning with invention. The juxtaposition of atomic signals leads to complex signals, as the natural product of gradual process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199582947
• ISBN13: 9780199582945
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"