Simple model of self-organized biological evolution

We give an exact solution of a recently proposed self-organized critical model of biological evolution. We show that the model has a power law distribution of durations of coevolutionary "avalanches" with a mean field exponent 3/2. We also calculate analytically the finite size effects whi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 1994-08, Vol.73 (6), p.906-909
Hauptverfasser: de Boer J, Derrida, B, Flyvbjerg, H, Jackson, AD, Wettig, T
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We give an exact solution of a recently proposed self-organized critical model of biological evolution. We show that the model has a power law distribution of durations of coevolutionary "avalanches" with a mean field exponent 3/2. We also calculate analytically the finite size effects which cut off this power law at times of the order of the system size.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.906