Jetten, Elles (2020) The evolution of mechanisms for making fitness-relevant decisions. Master's Research Project 1, Biology.
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Abstract
Short-term decisions are guided and evaluated by the emotion system, and it has been suggested that this system acts as a mediator of an organism’s genes to set goals for behaviour. By means of a theoretical modelling study, I address the question how such an evaluation system is shaped by natural selection. To this end, I consider a population of individuals that have to make fitness-relevant decisions. Each individual is endowed with a heritable neural network that processes and evaluates environmental cues and thus guides the individual’s patch choice decisions. I investigated the evolution of different types of neural network in slightly different decision situations.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master's Research Project 1) |
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| Supervisor name: | Weissing, F.J. and Kozielska-Reid, M.A. |
| Degree programme: | Biology |
| Thesis type: | Master's Research Project 1 |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2020 09:18 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2020 09:18 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/22754 |
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