Environmental influence on the evolution of morphological complexity in machines.

Whether, when, how, and why increased complexity evolves in biological populations is a longstanding open question. In this work we combine a recently developed method for evolving virtual organisms with an information-theoretic metric of morphological complexity in order to investigate how the comp...

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Main Authors: Joshua E Auerbach, Josh C Bongard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3879106?pdf=render