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The evolution of evolutionary engines

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Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations

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Evolution is based on a complex and intertwined interplay between generation of new variants and their selection by competition in the environment. Much research has established that the generation of evolutionary diversity is not a passive process that just “occurs” to organisms: rather, a fluid and active set of strategies is in place so that living beings control the ways in which diversity is generated. We describe some of the consequences for our current views of evolu- tionary theory and survey how the understanding of the field is changing.

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  1. Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, USA

    Marcelo O. Magnasco

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  1. Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

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  2. Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway

    A. T. Skjeltorp

  3. Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    T. Vicsek

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Magnasco, M.O. (2002). The evolution of evolutionary engines. In: Skjeltorp, A.T., Vicsek, T. (eds) Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations. NATO Science Series, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0419-0_6

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