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SUBMITTER: Fortuna MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3605903 | biostudies-other | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Fortuna Miguel A MA Zaman Luis L Wagner Aaron P AP Ofria Charles C
PLoS computational biology 20130307 3
"It is hard to realize that the living world as we know it is just one among many possibilities" [1]. Evolving digital ecological networks are webs of interacting, self-replicating, and evolving computer programs (i.e., digital organisms) that experience the same major ecological interactions as biological organisms (e.g., competition, predation, parasitism, and mutualism). Despite being computational, these programs evolve quickly in an open-ended way, and starting from only one or two ancestra ...[more]