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ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
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
ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
Evolution and Complexity: The Double-Edged Sword
We attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to the question of whether, and when, an arrow of complexity emerges in Darwinian evolution. We note that this expression can be interp...
Thomas Miconi
ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
The Nature of Words in Human Protolanguages: It's Not a Holophrastic-Atomic Meanings Dichotomy
There is an ongoing debate as to whether the words in early pre-syntactic forms of human language had simple atomic meanings like modern words [4, 5], or whether they were holophr...
Mike Dowman
ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
Exploring the Operational Characteristics of Inference Algorithms for Transcriptional Networks by Means of Synthetic Data
The development of structure-learning algorithms for gene regulatory networks depends heavily on the availability of synthetic data sets that contain both the original network and ...
Koenraad Van Leemput, Tim Van den Bulcke, Thomas D...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
A Model of the Quorum Sensing System in Vibrio fischeri Using P Systems
Quorum sensing is a cell density dependent gene regulation system that allows an entire population of bacterial cells to communicate in order to regulate the expression of certain ...
Francisco José Romero-Campero, Mario J. P&e...