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Evolvability — is a concept within the Darwinian understanding of biological evolution. Darwin s theory of evolution by natural selection requires that plants, animals, and other organisms be able to produce offspring that are sometimes better adapted to the… … Wikipedia
Evolvability — Evolvierbarkeit (englisch evolvability) ist ein Begriff der Evolutionsbiologie. Er bezeichnet die Fähigkeit von Lebewesen, durch Veränderung ihrer Gene eine Veränderung ihrer Merkmale herbeizuführen. Der Begriff Evolvierbarkeit wird sowohl in… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Evolvability (computer science) — The concept of evolvability is increasingly studied in evolutionary computation as well as in biology. The term Evolvability is also used for a recent framework of computational learning introduced by Leslie Valiant in his paper of the same name… … Wikipedia
Mutational robustness — describes the extent to which an organism’s phenotype remains constant in spite of mutation.[1] Natural selection can directly induce the evolution of mutational robustness only when mutation rates are high and population sizes are large.[2] The… … Wikipedia
Evolution of ageing — Enquiry into the evolution of ageing aims to explain why almost all living things weaken and die with age. There is not yet agreement in the scientific community on a single answer. The evolutionary origin of senescence remains a fundamental… … Wikipedia
Degeneracy (biology) — Within biological systems, degeneracy refers to circumstances where structurally dissimilar components/modules/pathways can perform similar functions (i.e. are effectively interchangeable) under certain conditions, but perform distinct functions… … Wikipedia
Normalized Systems — is a theory to design and engineer information systems exhibiting proven evolvability. Originally established at the University of Antwerp, at the department Management Information Systems of the faculty Applied Economics, it aims at re creating… … Wikipedia
Neutral theory of molecular evolution — The neutral theory of molecular evolution states that the vast majority of evolutionary changes at the molecular level are caused by random drift of selectively neutral mutants (not affecting fitness).[1] The theory was introduced by Motoo Kimura … Wikipedia
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Evolution — This article is about evolution in biology. For other uses, see Evolution (disambiguation). For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to evolution. Part of a series on … Wikipedia
