Trial and Error edited by F Shapiro and J Garry

Applied Metacognition Edited by Timothy J . Perfect

DNA Arrays. Edited by J. B. Rampal

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) represent a diverse family of nzymes that historically were identified by their ability to proteoytically cleave proteins within the extracellular matrix. With furher investigation, additional substrates for these enzymes have een identified and the number of proteins within the family has xpanded to over 20 different species. Along with the identification of he...

: Edited by Steven C . Amstrup , Trent L . McDonald and Bryan F . J . Manly : Handbook of Capture - Recapture

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Anecdotal , Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics Edited by James F . Crow and William F . Dove H . J . Muller and the ‘ ‘ Competition Hoax ’ ’

HERMAN Joseph Muller—Joe, as he preferred to be called in his later life—is best known for his discovery of X-ray mutagenesis (Figure 1). Important as this is, it is but a tiny fraction of his work. In his introduction to Muller’s collected papers (Muller 1962, p. v), Joshua Lederberg wrote: ‘‘It is not easy to find an original thought in biological theory that has not, in some way, been antici...

Learning by trial and error

A person learns by trial and error if he occasionally tries out new strategies, rejecting choices that are erroneous in the sense that they do not lead to higher payoffs. In a game, however, strategies can become erroneous due to a change of behavior by someone else. Such passive errors may also trigger a search for new and better strategies, but the nature of the search is different than when ...