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Computer simulations for biological aging and sexual reproduction.
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias - 1 Mar 2001
Stauffer D, de Oliveira P M, de Oliveira S M, Penna T J, Martins J S
Abstract excerpt
The sexual version of the Penna model of biological aging, simulated since 1996, is compared here with alternative forms of reproduction as well as with models not involving aging. In particular we want to check how sexual forms of life could have evolved and won over earlier asexual forms hundreds of million years ago. This computer model is based on the mutation-accumulation theory of aging, using bits-strings...
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