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Creatures from another world

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  • Inman Harvey

    (Centre for the Study of Evolution, and the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex)

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Digital organisms are computer programs that are designed to mimic evolutionary processes by mutating and reproducing. Their use is controversial, but they might allow scientists to ask questions about evolution that cannot be answered easily by studying real organisms. Such organisms have been used to study how multiple mutations in the same organism interact, with combined effects that can be greater or less than the sum of their parts.

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  • Inman Harvey, 1999. "Creatures from another world," Nature, Nature, vol. 400(6745), pages 618-619, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:400:y:1999:i:6745:d:10.1038_23142
    DOI: 10.1038/23142
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