The topology of evolutionary biology (2004)
| Venue: | IN CIOBANU, EDITOR, MODELING IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, NATURAL COMPUTING SERIES |
| Citations: | 1 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Stadler04thetopology,
author = {Bärbel M. R. Stadler and Peter F. Stadler},
title = {The topology of evolutionary biology},
booktitle = {IN CIOBANU, EDITOR, MODELING IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, NATURAL COMPUTING SERIES},
year = {2004},
pages = {267--286},
publisher = {Springer Verlag}
}
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Abstract
Central notions in evolutionary biology are intrinsically topological. This claim is maybe most obvious for the discontinuities associated with punctuated equilibria. Recently, a mathematical framework has been developed that derives the concepts of phenotypic characters and homology from the topological structure of the phenotype space. This structure in turn is determined by the genetic operators and their interplay with the properties of the genotype-phenotype map.
