Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
2007, 72, 223-251
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc20070223
Artificial Chemistry and Replicator Theory of Coevolution of Genes and Memes
Vladimír Kvasnička* and Jiří Pospíchal
Institute of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak Technical University, 84216 Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract
A simple replication theory of coevolution of genes and memes is proposed. A population composed of pairs of genes and memes, the so-called m-genes, is postulated as a subject of Darwinian evolution. Three different types of operations over m-genes are introduced: Replication (an m-gene is replicated with mutations onto an offspring m-gene), interaction (a memetic transfer from a donor to an acceptor), and extinction (an m-gene is eliminated). Computer simulations of the present model allow to identify different mechanisms of gene and meme coevolution.
Keywords: Chemostat; Replicator; Meme; Memetics; Coevolution; Darwinian evolution; Social learning; Evolvability; In silico chemistry.
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