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q-bio.PE2008
Physics of Evolution: Selection without Fitness
Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner
Traditionally evolution is seen as a process where from a pool of possible variations of a population (e.g. biological species or industrial goods) a few variations get selected wh…
q-bio.PE2008
Pruning the Tree of Life: k-core Percolation as Selection Mechanism
Peter Klimek, Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel
We propose a model for evolution aiming to reproduce statistical features of fossil data, in particular the distributions of extinction events, the distribution of species per genu…
q-bio.PE2007★ 1 cited
Studies in the physics of evolution: creation, formation, destruction
Rudolf Hanel, Peter Klimek, Stefan Thurner
The concept of (auto)catalytic systems has become a cornerstone in understanding evolutionary processes in various fields. The common ground is the observation that for the product…