The origin of autonomous agents by natural selection

BioSystems

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 355-373

  Fernando, Chrisantha ^a,b   Rowe, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Artificial chemistry; Autonomous agents; Chemical evolution; Natural selection; Origin of metabolism

Indexed keywords

LIPID; OIL; POLYMER;

AUTONOMY; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; NATURAL SELECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL METABOLISM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPUTER MODEL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NATURAL SELECTION; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 37549036686     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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