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Neutral Mutations and Punctuated Equilibrium in Evolving Genetic Networks

Stefan Bornholdt·Kim Sneppen
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Boolean networks may be viewed as idealizations of biological genetic networks, where each node is represented by an on-off switch which is a function of the binary output from some other nodes. We evolve connectivity in a single Boolean network, and demonstrate how the sole requirement of sequential matching of attractors may open for an evolution that exhibits punctuated equilibrium.

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Stefan Bornholdt, Kim Sneppen. 1999-03-04. Neutral Mutations and Punctuated Equilibrium in Evolving Genetic Networks. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.236

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