Publication: Testing a hypothesis for the evolution of sex
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World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
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An asexual set of primitive bacteria is simulated with a bit-string Penna model with a Fermi function for survival. A recent hypothesis by Jan, Stauffer, and Moseley on the evolution of sex from asexual cells as a strategy for trying to escape the effects of deleterious mutations is checked. This strategy is found to provide a successful scenario for the evolution of a stable macroscopic sexual population.
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International Journal of Modern Physics C
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0129-1831
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Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech), Evolution, Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE), FOS: Physical sciences, random walks, Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, Problems related to evolution, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Self-organized systems, FOS: Biological sciences, Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft), Physics - Biological Physics, Random walks, Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution, self-organized systems, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics