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Avida: A Software Platform for Research in Computational Evolutionary Biology

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The Avida digital evolution platform is a software tool used to perform experimental evolution research with self-replicating computer programs ("digital organisms"). Av...

Charles Ofria, Claus O. Wilke

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Using Avida to Test the Effects of Natural Selection on Phylogenetic Reconstruction Methods

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Phylogenetic trees group organisms by their ancestral relationships. There are a number of distinct algorithms used to reconstruct these trees from molecular sequence data, but dif...

George I. Hagstrom, Dehua H. Hang, Charles Ofria, ...

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Tracking the Trajectories of Evolution

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This paper proposes a method of visualizing and measuring evolution in Artificial Life simulations. The evolving population of agents is treated as a dynamical system. The propose...

Mikhail S. Burtsev

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Unbinding Biological Autonomy: Francisco Varela's Contributions to Artificial Life

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Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

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Evolution of Resource Competition between Mutually Dependent Digital Organisms

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We study the emergence and dynamics of competing strains of digital organisms in a world with two depletable resources. Consumption of one resource produces the other resource as a...

Tyler J. Johnson, Claus O. Wilke

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Autopoiesis and Cognition in the Game of Life

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Maturana and Varela's notion of autopoiesis has the potential to transform the conceptual foundation of biology as well as the cognitive, behavioral, and brain sciences. In or...

Randall D. Beer

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Development and the Baldwin Effect

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Baldwin's classic hypothesis states that behavioral plasticity can speed evolution by (a) smoothing the fitness landscape and (b) indirect genetic assimilation of acquired cha...

Keith L. Downing

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Building Artificial Life for Play

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Toys and play-things are often engineered to replicate the character of real organisms. In the past, inventors often lavished great expense on their life-like automata, their cons...

Alan Dorin

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Digital Evolution in Time-Dependent Fitness Landscapes

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We study the response of populations of digital organisms that adapt to a time-varying (periodic) fitness landscape of two oscillating peaks. We corroborate in general predictions ...

Ye Li, Claus O. Wilke

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Learning Obstacle Avoidance with an Operant Behavior Model

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