2007/07/31 by Nicholas Guttenberg, Nigel Goldenfeld · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.058102
5 pages, 3 figures; added comments on system size scaling and turbulence analogy, added error estimates of data collapse parameters. Slightly enhanced from the version which will appear in PRL
arxiv created 2007/12/20 · openalex publication_date 2008/02/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We simulate an individual-based model that represents both the phenotype and genome of digital organisms with predator-prey interactions. We show how open-ended growth of complexity arises from the invariance of genetic evolution operators with respect to changes in the complexity, and that the dynamics which emerges shows scaling indicative of a nonequilibrium critical point. The mechanism is analogous to the development of the cascade in fluid turbulence.