The role of mate choice in biocomputation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification (1995)
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@MISC{Miller95therole,
author = {Geoffrey F. Miller and Peter M. Todd and In W. Banzhaf and F. H. Eeckman (eds},
title = {The role of mate choice in biocomputation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
The most successful, complex, and numerous species on earth are composed of sexuallyreproducing animals and flowering plants. Both groups typically undergo a form of sexual selection through mate choice: animals are selected by conspecifics and flowering plants are selected by heterospecific pollinators. This suggests that the evolution of phenotypic complexity and diversity may be driven not simply by natural-selective adaptation to econiches, but by subtle interactions between natural selection and sexual selection. This paper reviews several theoretical arguments and simulation results in support of this view. Biological interest in sexual selection has exploded in the last 15 years (see Andersson & Bradbury, 1987; Cronin, 1991), but has not yet been integrated with the biocomputational perspective on evolution as a process of search and optimization (Holland, 1975; Goldberg, 1989). In the terminology of sexual selection theory, mate preferences for "viability indicators" (e.g. Hami...
