%0 Journal Article %1 ac:Ada95b %A Adami, Christopher %D 1995 %J Phys. Lett. A %K biology criticality evolution artificiallife selforganised soc powerlaw %P 29--32 %T Self-organized Criticality in Living Systems %V 203 %X We suggest that ensembles of self-replicating entities such as biological systems naturally evolve into a self-organized critical state in which fluctuations, as well as waiting-times between phase transitions are distributed according to a 1/f power law. We demonstrate these concepts by analyzing a population of self-replicating strings (segments of computer-code) subject to mutation and survival of the fittest.

@article{ac:Ada95b, abstract = {We suggest that ensembles of self-replicating entities such as biological systems naturally evolve into a self-organized critical state in which fluctuations, as well as waiting-times between phase transitions are distributed according to a 1/f power law. We demonstrate these concepts by analyzing a population of self-replicating strings (segments of computer-code) subject to mutation and survival of the fittest.}, added-at = {2006-07-26T16:59:08.000+0200}, author = {Adami, Christopher}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c6e1df8fdd956ab42152ce0123cff82c/pietrosperoni}, citeulike-article-id = {437932}, interhash = {3e74714da1ff914134ee322fccd05e09}, intrahash = {c6e1df8fdd956ab42152ce0123cff82c}, journal = {Phys. Lett. A}, keywords = {biology criticality evolution artificiallife selforganised soc powerlaw}, pages = {29--32}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2009-01-07T08:09:00.000+0100}, title = {Self-organized Criticality in Living Systems}, volume = 203, year = 1995 }