Developmental mappings and phenotypic complexity
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The effect of phenotypic complexity on distance correlation plots is investigated for two developmental mappings, a mapping based on L-systems, and a 2D cellular automata mapping. Our treatment of complexity is based on the theory of Kolmogorov complexity. A new genotype sampling algorithm called Crossection Walk is introduced.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003