Ignorance can be evolutionarily beneficial

Abstract Information is increasingly being viewed as a resource used by organisms to increase their fitness. Indeed, it has been formally shown that there is a sensible way to assign a reproductive value to information and it is non‐negative. However, all of this work assumed that information collec...

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Main Authors: Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3627