We present empirical evidence that long-term evolutionary dynamics fall into three distinct classes, depending on whether adaptive evolutionary activity is absent (class 1), bounded (class 2), or unbounded (class 3). These classes are defined using three statistics: diversity, new evolutionary...

We introduce a method for visualizing evolutionary activity of genotypes. Following a proposal of Bedau and Packard[11], we define a genotype's evolutionary activity in terms of the history of its concentration in the evolving population. To visualize this evolutionary activity we graph the...

The theory of autocatalytic binary ligation is reviewed within the context of a rigorously applied Michaelis-Menten quasi-steady-state approximation to obtain explicit analytical results describing time-course data from experiments. A detailed protocol for the step-wise elucidation of a minimal...

The Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market [13, 4] is an agent-based artificial model in which agents continually explore and develop expectational models, buy and sell assets based on the predictions of those models that perform best, and confirm or discard these models based on their performance...

A simple model of tag-mediated partner selection for agents playing the IPD is described. The agents strategies are represented as (i,q,q) triples as in [Nowak and May, 1992]. The tags are represented as arbitrary real numbers in [0,1], and tag selection is biased toward agents with similar...