Informations in models of evolutionary dynamics
Abstract
Biological organisms adapt to changes by processing informations from different sources, most notably from their ancestors and from their environment. We review an approach to quantify these informations by analyzing mathematical models of evolutionary dynamics, and show how explicit results are obtained for a solvable subclass of these models. In several limits, the results coincide with those obtained in studies of information processing for communication, gambling or thermodynamics. In the most general case, however, information processing by biological populations shows unique features that motivate the analysis of specific models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.07761,
title = {Informations in models of evolutionary dynamics},
author = {Olivier Rivoire},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07761},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
contribution for a special issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics on "Information Processing in Living Systems"