A case study of the de novo evolution of a complex odometric behavior in digital organisms

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A comparison of the effects of random and selective mass extinctions on erosion of evolutionary history in communities of digital organisms

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Adaptive radiation from resource competition in digital organisms

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Applying digital evolution to the design of self-adaptive software

Autonomic Software Development Methodology Based on Darwinian Evolution

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Avida

Avida: Evolution Experiments with Self-Replicating Computer Programs

Avida: a software platform for research in computational evolutionary biology

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Balancing robustness and evolvability

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Cockroaches, drunkards, and climbers: Modeling the evolution of simple movement strategies using digital organisms

Coevolution drives the emergence of complex traits and promotes evolvability

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Design of evolvable computer languages

Digital evolution with avida

Distributed Cooperative Caching in Social Wireless Networks

Ecological approaches to diversity maintenance in evolutionary algorithms

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Ecological specialization and adaptive decay in digital organisms

scientific article published on 4 December 2006

Ecological theory provides insights about evolutionary computation

Ecological theory provides insights about evolutionary computation

Effects of population size and mutation rate on the evolution of mutational robustness

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Evolution of Cooperative Information Gathering in Self-Replicating Digital Organisms

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Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms

Evolution of biological complexity

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Evolution of digital organisms at high mutation rates leads to survival of the flattest

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Evolution of division of labor in genetically homogenous groups

Evolutionary dynamics, epistatic interactions, and biological information

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Evolving coordinated quadruped gaits with the HyperNEAT generative encoding

Evolving digital ecological networks

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Experiments on the role of deleterious mutations as stepping stones in adaptive evolution

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Experiments with digital organisms on the origin and maintenance of sex in changing environments

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Exploring genetic programming systems with MAP-Elites

Exploring genetic programming systems with MAP-Elites

Fluctuating environments select for short-term phenotypic variation leading to long-term exploration

Genetically integrated traits and rugged adaptive landscapes in digital organisms

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Harnessing Digital Evolution

Historical and contingent factors affect re-evolution of a complex feature lost during mass extinction in communities of digital organisms

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How a Generative Encoding Fares as Problem-Regularity Decreases

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HybrID: A Hybridization of Indirect and Direct Encodings for Evolutionary Computation

Investigating whether hyperNEAT produces modular neural networks

Modeling the evolutionary dynamics of plasmids in spatial populations

Natural selection fails to optimize mutation rates for long-term adaptation on rugged fitness landscapes

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Natural selection fails to optimize mutation rates for long-term adaptation on rugged fitness landscapes

On the Gradual Evolution of Complexity and the Sudden Emergence of Complex Features

scientific article (publication date: July 2008)

On the Performance of Indirect Encoding Across the Continuum of Regularity

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Ontogeny tends to recapitulate phylogeny in digital organisms

scientific article published on 16 July 2012

Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York

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PERSPECTIVE:EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS

Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2003

Problem decomposition using indirect reciprocity in evolved populations

Rapid host-parasite coevolution drives the production and maintenance of diversity in digital organisms

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Runaway sexual selection leads to good genes

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Selective press extinctions, but not random pulse extinctions, cause delayed ecological recovery in communities of digital organisms

scientific article published on April 2009

Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting: evidence from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive fitness theory

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Selective pressures on genomes in molecular evolution

scientific article published on June 2003

Sexual reproduction reshapes the genetic architecture of digital organisms

scientific article published in February 2006

Spatial Structure Can Decrease Symbiotic Cooperation

Spatial resource heterogeneity creates local hotspots of evolutionary potential

Spatial resource heterogeneity increases diversity and evolutionary potential

Task-switching costs promote the evolution of division of labor and shifts in individuality

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2012)

The Boundedness Illusion: Asymptotic projections from early evolution underestimate evolutionary potential

The Boundedness Illusion: Asymptotic projections from early evolution underestimate evolutionary potential

The Effects of Evolution and Spatial Structure on Diversity in Biological Reserves

The Evolution of Division of Labor

The MODES toolbox: Measurements of Open-ended Dynamics in Evolving Systems

The MODES toolbox: Measurements of Open-ended Dynamics in Evolving Systems

The MODES toolbox: Measurements of Open-ended Dynamics in Evolving Systems

The MODES toolbox: Measurements of Open-ended Dynamics in Evolving Systems

The effect of conflicting pressures on the evolution of division of labor

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The effect of natural selection on the performance of maximum parsimony

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The evolution of kin inclusivity levels

The evolutionary origin of complex features

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The evolutionary origin of somatic cells under the dirty work hypothesis

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The genotype-phenotype map of an evolving digital organism.

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The sensitivity of HyperNEAT to different geometric representations of a problem

There and back again

Toward open-ended fraternal transitions in individuality

Toward open-ended fraternal transitions in individuality

Understanding evolutionary potential in virtual CPU instruction set architectures

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Using Avida to test the effects of natural selection on phylogenetic reconstruction methods

scientific article published in January 2004

WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web.

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