SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Jun., 1978), pp. 687-691 (5 pages) In this paper, bifurcations of the recurrence relation X n + 1 = F(X n) are studied. For a certain class of ...

The idea of a form-function correlation implies some benefit for the individual that displays it. This is subsumed under the heading of adaptation, the reality of which has recently been questioned.