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Natural selection in relation to complexity.
Artificial life - 1 Jan 2008
Salthe Stanley N
Abstract excerpt
Structural complexity characterizes our representations of dissipative structures. As a mechanistic concept, when referred to natural systems it generates perplexity in the face of logically sound models. Natural selection is a simple mechanistic concept, whose logic is well exemplified in genetic algorithms. While biological traits and functions do appear to have been subjected to selective culling, current...
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