Neutral Mutations and Punctuated Equilibrium in Evolving Genetic Networks
- 6 July 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (1), 236-239
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.236
Abstract
Boolean networks may be viewed as idealizations of biological genetic networks, where each node is represented by an on-off switch which is a function of the binary output from some other nodes. We evolve connectivity in a single Boolean network, and demonstrate how the sole requirement of sequential matching of attractors may open for an evolution that exhibits punctuated equilibrium.Keywords
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