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A Model of Biological Differentiation in Adaptiogenesis to the Environment

Takamasa Sawada, Atsuko Mutoh, Shohei Kato and Hidenori Itoh

Department of Intelligence and Computer Science,
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
{sawada, atsuko, shohey, itoh}@ics.nitech.ac.jp

Abstract:

In this paper, we propose a model of biological differentiation based on physical features and behavioral strategies in order to probe the mysteries of biological differentiation. We, then, implement the model, and perform the Alife simulations of birds' evolution in an artificial ecology. The ecology  consists of two islands, and the atmospheric temperature in each of the islands fluctuates periodically. As a result of the simulations, we have observed that birds, adapting themselves to a change of temperature in their habitat, branch off in two types of biology: migratory bird and resident bird.



Russell Standish
2002-11-13