«L’esprit va dans son travail, de son désordre à son ordre. Il importe qu’il se conserve jusqu’à la fin des ressources de désordre, et que l’ordre qu’il a commencé de se donner ne se lie pas si complètement, ne lui soit pas un si rigide maître, qu’il ne puisse le changer et user de sa liberté initiale.» (Paul Valéry)
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In this model a certain sequence of characters is supposed to have a “survival advantage” compared to any random sequence. The multiplication happens with errors of a fixed probability. By making use of this model, the evolutionary role of sequence length, life expectancy and mutation rate has been studied.
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Dedicated to Prof. I. Tarján, pioneer of exact approach to biology, on his 70th birthday.
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Deák, F., Marx, G. Computer models for some aspects of evolution. Acta Physica 53, 263–277 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03156196
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