Survival of the Fittest Tools

Developing a Tool for Analysing and Generating the fittest Urban Morphology based on Sky View Factor and Insolation: With a Case Study on Yazd

Urban morphology, including buildings’ typology and their configuration, affects sky view factor and insolation, which are two of the most influential parameters in urban microclimate. These become even more important in extreme environmental conditions. In this research, challenge was to generate various rule based urban morphologies in a parametric environment. Then, to evaluate them based on...

African wild dogs test the 'survival of the fittest' paradigm.

Charles Darwin first used the term 'survival of the fittest' in the 5th edition of The origin of species. A literal interpretation implies that predators will selectively prey upon the weakest members of a population. We demonstrate that this is true for African wild dogs hunting impala.

Survival of the fittest

Survival of the Fittest: Health Care Accelerators Evolve Toward Specialization

An Improved Function Optimization Problem (IFOP) of Evolutionary Programming Algorithm - A Survival Paper

Evolutionary Algorithms are based on some influential principles like Survival of the Fittest and with some natural phenomena in Genetic Inheritance. The key for searching the solution in improved function optimization problems are based only on Selection and Mutation operators. This paper reflects on Survival selection schemes specifically like Truncate Selection, Proportionate Selection, Tour...

The Fittest versus the Flattest: Experimental Confirmation of the Quasispecies Effect with Subviral Pathogens

The "survival of the fittest" is the paradigm of Darwinian evolution in which the best-adapted replicators are favored by natural selection. However, at high mutation rates, the fittest organisms are not necessarily the fastest replicators but rather are those that show the greatest robustness against deleterious mutational effects, even at the cost of a low replication rate. This scenario, dub...