Academic papers, datasets and scientific plots — long-running work on heterogeneous cellular automata, open-ended evolution and genetic programming.
David Medernach
The biological world where natural selection takes place is a world constantly affected by external physical phenomena, whether cyclical and regular, such as the rotation of the earth, or punctual...
David Medernach, Simon Carrignon, René Doursat, Taras Kowaliw, Jeannie Fitzgerald, Conor Ryan
The importance of environmental fluctuations in the evolution of living organisms by natural selection has been widely noted by biologists and linked to many important characteristics of life such...
David Medernach, Jeannie Fitzgerald, Simon Carrignon, Conor Ryan
Although very controversial in the field of evolutionary biology, the notion of *evolutionary progress* is nevertheless generally accepted in the field of *Artificial Life*. In this article we...
David Medernach, Taras Kowaliw, Conor Ryan, René Doursat
It is a truism that the complexity of life increases with time, even if the means or measures of it are controversial. Recreating this effectively endless self-generation of new mechanisms and...
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