Critical-like self-organization and natural selection: Two facets of a single evolutionary process?

BioSystems

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-158

  Halley, Julianne D ^a   Winkler, David A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Criticality; Fractal geometry; Natural selection; Self organization

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; NATURAL SELECTION; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; INHERITANCE; NATURAL SELECTION; REPRODUCTION; SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; THEORY;

EID: 41549095776     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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