Randomness increases order in biological evolution

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7160 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 289-308

  Longo, Giuseppe ^a,b   Montévil, Maël ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION; BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; GLOBAL ENTROPY; STRONG LINK;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENTROPY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 84857493498     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27654-5_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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