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Evolution leads to a diversity of motion-detection neuronal circuits
Ali Tehrani-Saleh, Thomas LaBar, Christoph Adami
A central goal of evolutionary biology is to explain the origins and distribution of diversity across life. Beyond species or genetic diversity, we also observe diversity in the ci…
Origin of life in a digital microcosm
Nitash C G, Thomas LaBar, Arend Hintze +1
While all organisms on Earth descend from a common ancestor, there is no consensus on whether the origin of this ancestral self-replicator was a one-off event or whether it was onl…
Different evolutionary paths to complexity for small and large populations of digital organisms
Thomas LaBar, Christoph Adami
A major aim of evolutionary biology is to explain the respective roles of adaptive versus non-adaptive changes in the evolution of complexity. While selection is certainly responsi…
Evolution of genome size in asexual populations
Aditi Gupta, Thomas LaBar, Michael Miyagi +1
Genome sizes have evolved to vary widely, from 250 bases in viroids to 670 billion bases in amoeba. This remarkable variation in genome size is the outcome of complex interactions…
Evolvability tradeoffs in emergent digital replicators
Thomas LaBar, Arend Hintze, Christoph Adami
The role of historical contingency in the origin of life is one of the great unknowns in modern science. Only one example of life exists--one that proceeded from a single self-repl…
Does self-replication imply evolvability?
Thomas LaBar, Christoph Adami, Arend Hintze
The most prominent property of life on Earth is its ability to evolve. It is often taken for granted that self-replication--the characteristic that makes life possible--implies evo…
From Entropy to Information: Biased Typewriters and the Origin of Life
Christoph Adami, Thomas LaBar
The origin of life can be understood mathematically to be the origin of information that can replicate. The likelihood that entropy spontaneously becomes information can be calcula…