The minimal complexity of adapting agents increases with fitness.
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SUBMITTER: Joshi NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3708884 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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The minimal complexity of adapting agents increases with fitness.
Joshi Nikhil J NJ Tononi Giulio G Koch Christof C
PLoS computational biology 20130711 7
What is the relationship between the complexity and the fitness of evolved organisms, whether natural or artificial? It has been asserted, primarily based on empirical data, that the complexity of plants and animals increases as their fitness within a particular environment increases via evolution by natural selection. We simulate the evolution of the brains of simple organisms living in a planar maze that they have to traverse as rapidly as possible. Their connectome evolves over 10,000s of gen ...[more]
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