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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Artificial evolution"”.
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Artificial evolution with Binary Decision Diagrams: a study in evolvability in neutral spaces
… not yet fully understood, current approaches to artificial evolution fail to exhibit the evolvability so readily exhibited in nature. To be able to apply evolvability to artificial evolution the field must first understand and characterise it; this will then lead to systems which are much more …
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Evolutionary, developmental neural networks for robust robotic control
The use of artificial evolution to synthesize controllers for physical robots is still in its infancy. Most applications are on very simple robots in artificial environments, and even these examples struggle to span the "reality gap," a name given to the difference between the performance of a …
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A METE mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii provides new perspectives on the evolution of vitamin B12 auxotrophy
… on multiple occasions. Previous work using artificial evolution generated a metE mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (hereafter metE7) that requires B12 for growth. Here, I use metE7 to investigate how a newly-evolved B12 auxotroph might cope with B12 limitation and interact with …
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Towards realising multimodal robots
Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have been applied in co-evolutionary robotics over the last quarter century. They simultaneously generate the robot body morphology and controller algorithm through artificial evolution. However, the literature shows that in this area, it is still not possible to …
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Investigating the genomic, transcriptomic and metabolic landscape of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in the context of vitamin B12 availability
… advantage of some sort. Indeed, previous artificial evolution experiments alongside physiological studies from our group resulted in mutant strains of the unicellular green model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that now require B12 for growth, providing evidence for how this might have …
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The road to everywhere: Evolution, complexity and progress in natural and artificial systems
Evolution is notorious for its creative power, but also for giving rise to complex, unpredictable dynamics. As a result, practitioners of artificial evolution have encountered difficulties in predicting, analysing, or even understanding the outcome of their experiments. In particular, the concept …
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Evolving the Quarter Acre
… to the requirements for intensification. An ‘evolutionary analogy’ is adopted to help guide this exploration. Formulation of an artificial evolution explains the generation, testing and application of housing patterns from different development approaches and how they relate to an Auckland …
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Engineering durable late blight resistance to protect solanaceous plants
… This provides the rationale for developing artificial resistance genes to create durable resistance to late blight disease.<i>Phytophthora</i> species secrete essential effectors into plant cells that target critical host cellular mechanisms to promote disease. One such <i>P. infestans</i> …