Creatures from another world

Inman Harvey ()
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Inman Harvey: Centre for the Study of Evolution, and the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6745, 618-619

Abstract: Digital organisms are computer programs that are designed to mimic evolutionary processes by mutating and reproducing. Their use is controversial, but they might allow scientists to ask questions about evolution that cannot be answered easily by studying real organisms. Such organisms have been used to study how multiple mutations in the same organism interact, with combined effects that can be greater or less than the sum of their parts.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/23142

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