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We consider biological evolution as described within the Bak and Sneppen 1993 model. We exhibit, at the self-organized critical state, a power-law sensitivity to the initial conditions, calculate the associated exponent, and relate it to the recently introduced nonextensive thermostatistics. The scenario which here emerges without tuning strongly reminds of that of the tuned onset of chaos in say logistic-like one-dimensional maps. We also calculate the dynamical exponent z.
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Received: 5 November 1997 / Received in final form: 11 November 1997 / Accepted: 19 November 1997
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Tamarit, F., Cannas, S. & Tsallis, C. Sensitivity to initial conditions in the Bak-Sneppen model of biological evolution. Eur. Phys. J. B 1, 545–548 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050217
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050217