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EPS
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Sex, Mate Selection, and Evolution
: Simulations of the evolution of populations of diploid organisms showed that mate selection strategies which selected for "good genes" and strategies based on assortati...
Klaus Jaffe
COMPLEXITY
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
Sex promotes gamete selection: A quantitative comparative study of features favoring the evolution of sex
: Explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction remains one of the greatest challenges in biology. The theoretical oddity of sex is based on at least three advantages that asex...
Klaus Jaffe
CEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Learning benefits evolution if sex gives pleasure
Abstract-- In this paper we investigate the effects of individual learning on an evolving population of situated agents. We work with a novel type of system where agents can decide...
Robert Griffioen, Selmar K. Smit, A. E. Eiben
GECCO
2007
Springer
168views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Sex and death: towards biologically inspired heuristics for constraint handling
Constrained continuous optimization is still an interesting field of research. Many heuristics have been proposed in the last decade. Most of them are based on penalty functions....
Oliver Kramer, Stephan Brügger, Dejan Lazovic
GECCO
2003
Springer
108views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Sexual Selection of Co-operation
Advocates of sexual selection theory have argued that various male traits, such as male co-operative behavior towards females, can evolve through female preference for mating with ...
Muhammad Afzal Upal