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Rosangela Canino-Koning, Michael J. Wiser, Charles Ofria, Laurent Keller
'Laurent Keller'] Genetic spaces are often described in terms of fitness landscapes or genotype-to-phenotype maps, where each genetic sequence is associated with phenotypic properties and linked to other genotypes that are a single mutational step away. The positions close to a genotype make up its “mutational…
Raúl Ortega, Miguel Angel Fortuna, Xiangjie Kong
Digital evolution is a branch of artificial life in which self-replicating computer programs-digital organisms-mutate and evolve within a user-defined computational environment. In spite of its value in biology, we still lack an up-to-date and comprehensive database on digital organisms resulting from evolution…
Laura M. Grabowski, David M. Bryson, Fred C. Dyer, Robert T. Pennock + 2 more
'Charles Ofria' 'Paul Graham'] Investigating the evolution of animal behavior is difficult. The fossil record leaves few clues that would allow us to recapitulate the path that evolution took to build a complex behavior, and the large population sizes and long time scales required prevent us from re-evolving such…
Aditi Gupta, Thomas LaBar, Miriam Miyagi, Christoph Adami
Genome sizes have evolved to vary widely, from 250 bases in viroids to 670 billion bases in some amoebas. This remarkable variation in genome size is the outcome of complex interactions between various evolutionary factors such as mutation rate and population size. While comparative genomics has uncovered how some of…
Bill O'Neill
In silico experiments reveal how evolution can work--without missing links. What can biologists learn from them?
David A. Baum, Niles Lehman
The information contained in life exists in two forms, analog and digital. Analog information is manifest mainly in the differing concentrations of chemicals that get passed from generation to generation and can vary from cell to cell. Digital information is encoded in linear polymers such as DNA and RNA, whose side…
Nicola Milano, Stefano Nolfi, Suzannah Rutherford
We demonstrate how the need to cope with operational faults enables evolving circuits to find more fit solutions. The analysis of the results obtained in different experimental conditions indicates that, in absence of faults, evolution tends to select circuits that are small and have low phenotypic variability and…
Yuqiong Li, Liping Wu, Donato Morea
In the digital innovation ecosystem, the symbiosis mode formed between ecosystem members not only relates to their survival and development but also affects the ecosystem’s symbiosis evolution mechanism. Based on symbiosis theory, this study first explores the evolutionary equilibrium strategy and its stability for…
Federica Russo
Technologies have always been bearers of profound changes in science, society, and any other aspect of life. The latest technological revolution-the digital revolution-is no exception in this respect. This paper presents the revolution brought about by digital technologies through the lenses of a specific approach: the…
Troy Day
The process of evolutionary diversification unfolds in a vast genotypic space of potential outcomes. During the past century, there have been remarkable advances in the development of theory for this diversification, and the theory's success rests, in part, on the scope of its applicability. A great deal of this theory…
Bertalan Mesko
1.## The evolution of medical technology Physicians used to make informed decisions with a very limited set of tools but a growing amount of experience and knowledge that spans generations. With the birth of modern medicine in the 18th century, the practice of medicine has gradually become dependent on the use of…
Diego Navarro-Mateu, Ana Cocho-Bermejo
The majority of current visual-algorithmic architecture is constricted to specific parameters that are gradient related, keeping their parts’ relation fixed within the algorithm, far away from a truly parametric modeling with a flexible topology. Recent findings around genetics and certain genes capable of shape…
Johannes Jaeger, Manfred Laubichler, Werner Callebaut
In a recent opinion piece, Denis Duboule has claimed that the increasing shift towards systems biology is driving evolutionary and developmental biology apart, and that a true reunification of these two disciplines within the framework of evolutionary developmental biology (EvoDevo) may easily take another 100 years.…
Kyong-Ho Lee, Oliver Slattery, Richang Lu, Xiao Tang + 1 more
'Victor McCrary'] The goal of digital preservation is to ensure long-term access to digitally stored information. In this paper, we present a survey of techniques used in digital preservation. We also introduce representative digital preservation projects and case studies that provide insight into the advantages and…