A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton

This paper presents an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton (ECA) that simulates the evolutionary dynamics of biological interactions by manipulating strategies of dispersion and associations between digital organisms. The parameterization of the different types of interaction and distribution strategies...

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Autores principales:	Javier Falgueras-Cano, Juan-Antonio Falgueras-Cano, Andrés Moya
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	evolutionary altruism cross-species cooperation sex ratio phenotypic plasticity symbiosis Biology (General) QH301-705.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:76bc021e9b4b4e15b886cfd9cc9a74b32021-11-25T16:47:27ZA Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton10.3390/biology101111472079-7737https://doaj.org/article/76bc021e9b4b4e15b886cfd9cc9a74b32021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/11/1147https://doaj.org/toc/2079-7737This paper presents an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton (ECA) that simulates the evolutionary dynamics of biological interactions by manipulating strategies of dispersion and associations between digital organisms. The parameterization of the different types of interaction and distribution strategies using configuration files generates easily interpretable results. In that respect, ECA is an effective instrument for measuring the effects of relative adaptive advantages and a good resource for studying natural selection. Although ECA works effectively in obtaining the expected results from most well-known biological interactions, some unexpected effects were observed. For example, organisms uniformly distributed in fragmented habitats do not favor eusociality, and mutualism evolved from parasitism simply by varying phenotypic flexibility. Finally, we have verified that natural selection represents a cost for the emergence of sex by destabilizing the stable evolutionary strategy of the 1:1 sex ratio after generating randomly different distributions in each generation.Javier Falgueras-CanoJuan-Antonio Falgueras-CanoAndrés MoyaMDPI AGarticleevolutionary altruismcross-species cooperationsex ratiophenotypic plasticitysymbiosisBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENBiology, Vol 10, Iss 1147, p 1147 (2021)
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spellingShingle	evolutionary altruism cross-species cooperation sex ratio phenotypic plasticity symbiosis Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Javier Falgueras-Cano Juan-Antonio Falgueras-Cano Andrés Moya A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton
description	This paper presents an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton (ECA) that simulates the evolutionary dynamics of biological interactions by manipulating strategies of dispersion and associations between digital organisms. The parameterization of the different types of interaction and distribution strategies using configuration files generates easily interpretable results. In that respect, ECA is an effective instrument for measuring the effects of relative adaptive advantages and a good resource for studying natural selection. Although ECA works effectively in obtaining the expected results from most well-known biological interactions, some unexpected effects were observed. For example, organisms uniformly distributed in fragmented habitats do not favor eusociality, and mutualism evolved from parasitism simply by varying phenotypic flexibility. Finally, we have verified that natural selection represents a cost for the emergence of sex by destabilizing the stable evolutionary strategy of the 1:1 sex ratio after generating randomly different distributions in each generation.
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author	Javier Falgueras-Cano Juan-Antonio Falgueras-Cano Andrés Moya
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title	A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton
title_short	A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton
title_full	A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton
title_fullStr	A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton
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title_sort	study of the coevolution of digital organisms with an evolutionary cellular automaton
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A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton

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