The biology of digital organisms

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 528-532

  Wilke, Claus O ^a   Adami, Christoph ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0036837345     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02612-5     Document Type: Review

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