On the increase in complexity in evolution |
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Authors: | PT Saunders MW Ho |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AH, England;Department of Biology, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England |
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Abstract: | It is argued that complexity, rather than fitness or organization, is the quantity whose increase gives a direction to evolution.The increase in complexity is shown to be a consequence of the process by which a self-organizing system optimizes its organization with respect to a locally defined fitness potential. |
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