Lesson 4: Advantage, Word, Words

学习目标

• Interpret the competition game with selectively equivalent words and explain why the sentence is not stable without coupling among its words.
• Explain why forward linear coupling concentrates all advantage in the last member of a chain and how closing the chain into a loop changes the outcome.
• Decompose a general rate equation into amplification, decomposition and flux terms and distinguish unlimited from constrained growth.
• Classify growth functions by their degree p and predict the resulting selection behaviour for p = 0, 1 and 2 under constant organization.