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ALIFE
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Duplication of Modules Facilitates the Evolution of Functional Specialization
The evolution of simulated robots with three different architectures is studied in this article. We compare a nonmodular feed-forward network, a hardwired modular, and a duplicatio...
Raffaele Calabretta, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Paris...
ALIFE
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Pattern Formation and Optimization in Army Ant Raids
Army ant colonies display complex foraging raid patterns involving thousands of individuals communicating through chemical trails. In this article we explore, by means of a simple ...
Ricard V. Solé, Eric Bonabeau, Jordi Delgad...
ALIFE
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Evolution of Resource Competition between Mutually Dependent Digital Organisms
We study the emergence and dynamics of competing strains of digital organisms in a world with two depletable resources. Consumption of one resource produces the other resource as a...
Tyler J. Johnson, Claus O. Wilke
ALIFE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
The Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell Based on Conservation of Existing Interfaces
Current theories about the origin of the eukaryotic cell all assume that during evolution a prokaryotic cell acquired a nucleus. Here, it is shown that a scenario in which the nucl...
Albert D. G. de Roos
ALIFE
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Life Cycle of a Minimal Protocell - A Dissipative Particle Dynamics Study
Cross-reactions and other systematic difficulties generated by the coupling of functional chemical subsystems pose the largest challenge for assembling a viable protocell in the la...
Harold Fellermann, Steen Rasmussen, Hans-Joachim Z...