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Scaling laws in the functional content of genomes: Fundamental constants of evolution?
Erik van Nimwegen
With the number of fully-sequenced genomes now well over a hundred it has become possible to start investigating if there are any quantitative regularities in the genetic make-up o…
Scaling laws in the functional content of genomes
Erik van Nimwegen
With the number of sequenced genomes now over one hundred, and the availability of rough functional annotations for a substantial proportion of their genes, it has become possible…
Metastable Evolutionary Dynamics: Crossing Fitness Barriers or Escaping via Neutral Paths?
Erik van Nimwegen, James P. Crutchfield
We analytically study the dynamics of evolving populations that exhibit metastability on the level of phenotype or fitness. In constant selective environments, such metastable beha…
The Evolutionary Unfolding of Complexity
James P. Crutchfield, Erik van Nimwegen
We analyze the population dynamics of a broad class of fitness functions that exhibit epochal evolution---a dynamical behavior, commonly observed in both natural and artificial evo…
Optimizing Epochal Evolutionary Search: Population-Size Dependent Theory
Erik van Nimwegen, James P. Crutchfield
Epochal dynamics, in which long periods of stasis in an evolving population are punctuated by a sudden burst of change, is a common behavior in both natural and artificial evolutio…
Optimizing Epochal Evolutionary Search: Population-Size Independent Theory
Erik van Nimwegen, James P. Crutchfield
Epochal dynamics, in which long periods of stasis in population fitness are punctuated by sudden innovations, is a common behavior in both natural and artificial evolutionary proce…