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Zero Is Not a Four Letter Word: Studies in the Evolution of Language

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Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2005)

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We examine a model genetic system that has features of both genetic programming and genetic regulatory networks, to show how various forms of degeneracy in the genotype-phenotype map can induce complex and subtle behaviour in the dynamics that lead to enhanced evolutionary robustness and can be fruitfully described in terms of an elementary algorithmic “language”.

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  1. Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,  

    Chris Stephens

  2. Department Of Computer Science And Information Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland

    Miguel Nicolau & Conor Ryan

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  1. No Affiliation,  

    Maarten Keijzer

  2. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università di Milano Crema,  

    Andrea Tettamanzi

  3. Université Louis Pasteur, LSIIT, FDBT, Pôle API, F-67400, Illkirch, France

    Pierre Collet

  4. National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Jano van Hemert

  5. Institut des Systèmes d’Information (ISI), Université de Lausanne, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC),  

    Marco Tomassini

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Stephens, C., Nicolau, M., Ryan, C. (2005). Zero Is Not a Four Letter Word: Studies in the Evolution of Language. In: Keijzer, M., Tettamanzi, A., Collet, P., van Hemert, J., Tomassini, M. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3447. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31989-4_34

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