Evolution of Biological Complexity

Details Evolution of Biological Complexity Evolution of Biological Complexity

2000-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0005074v1

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci (USA) 97 (2000) 4463

Physics

Biological Physics

LaTeX 19 pages, incl. 4 figs

Scientific paper

10.1073/pnas.97.9.4463

In order to make a case for or against a trend in the evolution of complexity in biological evolution, complexity needs to be both rigorously defined and measurable. A recent information-theoretic (but intuitively evident) definition identifies genomic complexity with the amount of information a sequence stores about its environment. We investigate the evolution of genomic complexity in populations of digital organisms and monitor in detail the evolutionary transitions that increase complexity. We show that because natural selection forces genomes to behave as a natural ``Maxwell Demon'', within a fixed environment genomic complexity is forced to increase.

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