Simple mechanisms select for certain tr

Tim Hutton - 2012-01-17 09:56:29+0000 - Updated: 2012-07-09 11:58:29+0000

Simple mechanisms select for certain traits which have interesting side-effects. Multicellularity might evolve for one reason (clumping) but then that opens other possibilities and things move on from there.

There's a forthcoming paper that does something similar (not multicellularity though) in an artificial chemistry:
"Size selection and adaptive evolution in an artificial chemistry" Michael W. Lucht (2012) Artificial Life 18(2): 143-163.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/artl_a_00057

Test Tube Yeast Evolve Multicellularity: Scientific American

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