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A Zoo of Self-Replicators

A Zoo of Self-Replicators

Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 48
ISBN13: 9781615207879|ISBN10: 1615207872|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923174|EISBN13: 9781615207886
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch013
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Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano. "A Zoo of Self-Replicators." Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena, IGI Global, 2010, pp.379-426. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch013

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E. Bilotta & P. Pantano (2010). A Zoo of Self-Replicators. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch013

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Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano. "A Zoo of Self-Replicators." In Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-787-9.ch013

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Abstract

Our basic metaphor: in this chapter, we present a taxonomy of self-replicators - as if they were animals in a zoo. In the zoo, we play the role of an external observer (a zoologist) whose role is to describe the animals (artificial organisms) and their behavior. Different species reproduce in different ways - some sexually, some asexually. We observe differences in their developmental dynamics and differences in the way they adapt to their environment. In each case, what we see are life-like self-replicators, each adapted to a specific habitat. In Chapters 7 and 8, we have seen how evolutionary techniques can create a broad variety of self-replicators. The complex ways in which these self-replicators grow, reproduce and become extinct bring to mind the behavior of biological systems. In Chapter 11, we examined their genetics. Here we examine their behavior at the individual and the species level, applying a range of observational and experimental methods and using the results as the basis for a taxonomy.

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