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Who Needs Genomes?
Barry McMullin, Tim Taylor, Axel von Kamp
2001
Abstract
The first detailed mechanistic models for genome based reproduction were developed by John von Neumann in the period 1948-1953. While these models were extremely abstract, subsequent elaboration of the structure and function of DNA proved von Neumann’s designs to have been strikingly prescient. However, some significant questions still remain as to the specific benefits of this particular reproductive architecture. These questions are relevant both to understanding the evolutionary emergence of such systems, and their proper role in engineered or synthetic evolutionary systems. This paper will review these issues, and present some preliminary results of novel evolutionary experiments in the Tierra system, where artificial "organisms" are deliberately engineered to have an evolvable genetic architecture
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Reference
McMullin, B., Taylor, T., & von Kamp, A. (2001). Who Needs Genomes? Proceedings of the Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Information Systems and Technology, CBGIST 2001, 250–254. Duke University, USA.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{mcmullin2001who,
author = {McMullin, Barry and Taylor, Tim and {von Kamp}, Axel},
title = {Who Needs Genomes?},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Information Systems and Technology, CBGIST 2001},
year = {2001},
pages = {250-254},
month = mar,
address = {Duke University, USA},
category = {conference},
keywords = {selfrep}
}