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physics.bio-ph2000★ 31 cited
A Simple Explanation for Taxon Abundance Patterns
Johan Chu, Chris Adami
For taxonomic levels higher than species, the abundance distributions of number of subtaxa per taxon tend to approximate power laws, but often show strong deviationns from such a l…
cond-mat.dis-nn1999★ 28 cited
Critical and Near-Critical Branching Processes
Christoph Adami, Johan Chu
Scale-free dynamics in physical and biological systems can arise from a variety of causes. Here, we explore a branching process which leads to such dynamics. We find conditions for…
adap-org1996
Propagation of Information in Populations of Self-Replicating Code
Johan Chu, Chris Adami
We observe the propagation of information in a system of self-replicating strings of code (``Artificial Life'') as a function of fitness and mutation rate. Comparison with theoreti…