The Evolution of Complexity Simple Simulations of Major Innovations
This book gathers together much of the author’s work – both old and new - to explore a number of the key increases in complexity seen in the natural world, seeking to explain each of them purely in terms of the features of fitness landscapes. In a very straightforward manner, the book introduces bas...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Emergence, Complexity and Computation
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book gathers together much of the author’s work – both old and new - to explore a number of the key increases in complexity seen in the natural world, seeking to explain each of them purely in terms of the features of fitness landscapes. In a very straightforward manner, the book introduces basic concepts to help readers follow the main ideas. By using variations of the NK model and including the concept of the Baldwin effect, the author presents new abstract models that are able to explain why sources of evolutionary innovation (genomes, symbiosis, sex, chromosomes, multicellularity) have been selected for and hence how complexity has increased over time in some lineages |
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| Physical Description: | X, 88 p. 65 illus., 1 illus. in color online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783030407308 |