The evolution of complexity : simple simulations of major innovations / Larry Bull.
2020
QH324.2
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Title
The evolution of complexity : simple simulations of major innovations / Larry Bull.
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ISBN
3030407306
9783030407308 (electronic book)
9783030407292
3030407292
9783030407308 (electronic book)
9783030407292
3030407292
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (93 pages).
Call Number
QH324.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
570.285
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Emergence, complexity and computation ; 37.
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