Self-organized criticality in living systems

1994/01/27 by Christoph Adami, C. Adami · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cellular Automata and Applications #Origins and Evolution of Life #Theoretical and Computational Physics #adap-org #nlin.AO #q-bio

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0375-9601(95)00372-a

published as Phys. Lett. A 203 (1995) 29-32 · 8 p., tar-compressed uuencoded postscript incl. figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

arxiv created 1994/01/27 · openalex publication_date 1995/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We suggest that ensembles of self-replicating entities such as biological systems naturally evolve into a self-organized critical state in which fluctuations, as well as waiting-times between phase transitions are distributed according to a 1/f power law. We demonstrate these concepts by analyzing a population of self-replicating strings (segments of computer-code) subject to mutation and survival of the fittest.

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