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ALIFE
2008
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Natural Selection in Relation to Complexity
, reproductive value, soft selectionAbstract Structural complexity characterizes our representations of dissipative structures. As a mechanistic concept, when referred to natural s...
Stanley N. Salthe
TCBB
2008
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Nature Reserve Selection Problem: A Tight Approximation Algorithm
The Nature Reserve Selection Problem is a problem that arises in the context of studying biodiversity conservation. Subject to budgetary constraints, the problem is to select a set...
Magnus Bordewich, Charles Semple
ALIFE
2008
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Natural or Internal Selection? The Case of Canalization in Complex Evolutionary Systems
Using biological examples and theoretical arguments, the case is presented for extending the notion of natural selection to include internal selection in order to account for the e...
Alexander Riegler