4 entries — most recent first.
David Medernach
PhD Thesis, University of Limerick, Ireland
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 such as when a meteorite strikes the earth. It is recognized that these...
David Medernach, Simon Carrignon, René Doursat, Taras Kowaliw, Jeannie Fitzgerald, Conor Ryan
Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016 (ALIFE 2016), Chapter 41
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 as modularity, plasticity, genotype size, mutation rate, learning, or...
David Medernach, Jeannie Fitzgerald, Simon Carrignon, Conor Ryan
Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015 (ECAL 2015), pp. 512-519
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 adopt the definition proposed by Shanahan (2012) to study the existence of...
David Medernach, Taras Kowaliw, Conor Ryan, René Doursat
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO '13), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-10 2013, pp. 231-238
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 capabilities would be fascinating for its insight into our own origins, and...