Natural or Internal Selection? The case of canalization in complex evolutionary systems

Artificial Life

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-362

  Riegler, Alexander ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Canalization; Cognition; Complexity; Epigenesis; Evolution; Progress; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BIOLOGY;

CANALIZATION; COGNITION; COMPLEXITY; EPIGENESIS; EVOLUTION; PROGRESS; SELECTION;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIODIVERSITY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 50649097485     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2008.14.3.14308     Document Type: Article

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