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This paper is an attempt to give new avenues of research and development in the mathematical modelling of evolving systems. The best example of a natural evolution deals with the successive appearance, transformation and extinction of biological species on earth. The fundamental causes of such changes are not yet well established. Many theories were proposed to explain evolution. The first two were Lamarckism and Darwinism. Lamarck thought that the function creates the organ, but this cannot explain the memorization of the new characters in the genetic code. Darwin considered two complementary processes: on the one hand, an evolution of species by some random mutations and, on the other, a natural selection of the species which fit best their environment.
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Dubois, D.M. (1998). Emergence of Chaos in Evolving Volterra Ecosystems. In: van de Vijver, G., Salthe, S.N., Delpos, M. (eds) Evolutionary Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1510-2_15
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