Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability without the Pressure to Adapt

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lehman, Joel ^a   Stanley, Kenneth O ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EVOLVABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GROWTH; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84876569713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062186     Document Type: Article

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