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Evolutionary Stable Strategies and Cubic Vector Fields [PDF]

, 2022
The introduction of concepts of Game Theory and Ordinary Differential Equations into Biology gave birth to the field of Evolutionary Stable Strategies, with applications in Biology, Genetics, Politics, Economics and others. In special, the model composed by two players having two pure strategies each results in a planar cubic vector field with an ...
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Laws in Darwinian Evolutionary Theory [PDF]

Physics of Life Reviews, 2 (2005) 117-156, 2006
In the present article the recent works to formulate laws in Darwinian evolutionary dynamics are discussed. Although there is a strong consensus that general laws in biology may exist, opinions opposing such suggestion are abundant. Based on recent progress in both mathematics and biology, another attempt to address this issue is made in the present ...
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On structural stability of Evolutionary Stables Strategies [PDF]

, 2023
The introduction of concepts of Game Theory and Ordinary Differential Equations into Biology gave birth to the field of Evolutionary Stable Strategies, with applications in Biology, Genetics, Politics, Economics and others. In special, the model composed by two players having two pure strategies each results in a planar polynomial vector field with an ...
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Puzzles in modern biology. II. Language, cancer and the recursive processes of evolutionary innovation [PDF]

F1000Research 5:2089 (2016), 2016
Human language emerged abruptly. Diverse body forms evolved suddenly. Seed-bearing plants spread rapidly. How do complex evolutionary innovations arise so quickly? Resolving alternative claims remains difficult. The great events of the past happened a long time ago. Cancer provides a model to study evolutionary innovation.
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A synthetic biology approach for the design of genetic algorithms with bacterial agents [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Bacteria have been a source of inspiration for the design of evolutionary algorithms. At the beginning of the 20th century synthetic biology was born, a discipline whose goal is the design of biological systems that do not exist in nature, for example, programmable synthetic bacteria.
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Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in language [PDF]

In N. Gontier, J. P. Van Bendegem and D. Aerts (Eds.), Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture. Dordrecht: Springer (2005)., 2004
We show the presence of genuine quantum structures in human language. The neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme is founded on a probability structure that satisfies the Kolmogorovian axioms, and as a consequence cannot incorporate quantum-like evolutionary change.
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Evolutionary tradeoff and equilibrium in an aquatic predator-prey system [PDF]

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (66) 1547-1573 (2004), 2003
Due to the conventional distinction between ecological (rapid) and evolutionary (slow)timescales, ecological and population models to date have typically ignored the effects of evolution. Yet the potential for rapid evolutionary change has been recently established and may be critical to understanding how populations adapt to changing environments.
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Leveraging massively parallel reporter assays for evolutionary questions [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
A long-standing goal of evolutionary biology is to decode how gene regulatory processes contribute to organismal diversity, both within and between species. This question has remained challenging to answer, due both to the difficulties of predicting function from non-coding sequence, and to the technological constraints of laboratory research with non ...
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Natural selection maximizes Fisher information [PDF]

Frank, S. A. 2009. Natural selection maximizes Fisher information. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:231-244, 2009
In biology, information flows from the environment to the genome by the process of natural selection. But it has not been clear precisely what sort of information metric properly describes natural selection. Here, I show that Fisher information arises as the intrinsic metric of natural selection and evolutionary dynamics.
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The Neoplasia as embryological phenomenon and its implication in the animal evolution and the origin of cancer. II. The neoplastic process as an evolutionary engine [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
In this article, I put forward the idea that the neoplastic process (NP) has deep evolutionary roots and make specific predictions about the connection between cancer and the formation of the first embryo, which allowed for the evolutionary radiation of metazoans.
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