Symbiosis enables the evolution of rare complexes in structured environments

Authors:
Rob Mills;Richard A. Watson
Affiliations:
Natural Systems Research Group, University of Southampton, UK;Natural Systems Research Group, University of Southampton, UK
Venue:
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part II
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We present a model that considers evolvable symbiotic associations between species, such that one species can have an influence over the likelihood of other species being present in its environment. We show that this process of 'symbiotic evolution' leads to rare and adaptively significant complexes that are unavailable via non-associative evolution.