The effect of genetic robustness on evolvability in digital organisms
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Ecology and Evolution
- Vol. 8 (1) , 284
Abstract
Recent work has revealed that many biological systems keep functioning in the face of mutations and therefore can be considered genetically robust. However, several issues related to robustness remain poorly understood, such as its implications for evolvability (the ability to produce adaptive evolutionary innovations).Keywords
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