Self-organized Critical Model Of Biological Evolution
Condensed Matter
2015-06-25 v1 q-bio
Abstract
A punctuated equilibrium model of biological evolution with relative fitness between different species being the fundamental driving force of evolution is introduced. Mutation is modeled as a fitness updating cellular automaton process where the change in fitness after mutation follows a Gaussian distribution with mean and standard deviation . Scaling behaviors are observed in our numerical simulation, indicating that the model is self-organized critical. Besides, the numerical experiment suggests that models with different and belong to the same universality class. PACS numbers: 87.10.+e, 05.40.+j
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9411001,
title = {Self-organized Critical Model Of Biological Evolution},
author = {H. F. Chau and L. Mak and P. K. Kwok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9411001},
year = {2015}
}
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8 pages in REVTEX 3.0 with 4 figures (Figures available on request by sending e-mail to [email protected])