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A Spin-Glass Model of Evolution

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A Spin-Glass Model of Evolution

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A Spin-Glass Model of Evolution

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ByC. Amitrano, L. Peliti, M. Saber
BookMolecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes: Proteins, RNA and the Immune System

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1991
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 12
eBook ISBN 9780429498879

ABSTRACT

This chapter introduces a simple model of molecular evolution based upon spin-glass concepts and discusses its behavior. It identifies adaptive and neutral evolutionary behaviors. They are separated by a transition, which bears some relation with the gelation transition in spin glasses. A massive example of parallel computation goes under our own eyes, but is too slow to detect: evolution. M. Eigen et al. have considered deterministic equations governing the evolution of the genotype distribution in a population of self-replicating molecules. W. Fontana and P. Schuster have introduced a computer model of population evolution in a given fitness landscape, which models the dynamics of replication of ribonucleic acid-like molecules in prebiotic conditions. They are able to highlight several interesting features of the evolution mechanism, but their conclusions are restricted by the choice of a particular fitness function. S. A. Kauffman and S. Levin have introduced a class of fitness functions with tunable correlations in an evolutionary context.

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