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Andras, P (2019) Environmental Harshness and Fitness Improving Innovations. Artificial Life: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 31. pp. 300-307. ISSN 1530-9185
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Abstract
Fitness improving innovations occur in populations of organisms as genetic changes (mutations) that allow better fit with the environmental niche of the organisms. Similarly, fitness improving innovations may occur in the context of human communities as well in terms of socio-economic innovations (e.g. new ways of organizing the military, new products or services) that lead to more efficient use of available resources. Here we explore the link between such innovations and the harshness of the environment, where the populations live. Environmental harshness characterizes the availability of population growth supporting resources in the environment. Our analysis shows that if the harshness of the environment varies smoothly with the distance, the expected extent of fitness improving innovations and of the resource utilization efficiency of populations depends in a combined linear and harmonic manner on the harshness of the environment at the location of origin of the populations. We explore the implications of this result for particular cases of both biological and social environments (e.g. gene drives, business innovation).
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © MIT Press. This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via MIT Press at https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00179 - please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Computing and Mathematics |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2019 11:03 |
Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2019 09:05 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/6432 |