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"EVOLUTION does not just occur in biological systems." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. "There is also selection in society today between technologies, where different possible solutions are put to the market, where certain technologies prevail while other companies have to retool, do something else. That’s just how it is. Evolutionary technological processes are also documented in the literature by following patent records to see how different technologies are related." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

NATURAL SELECTION OF CODE. "Evolution is a physical process, and it can be implemented in many, many different systems. We have computer processes that undergo evolution just as real as evolution seen in bacteria in the lab. Darwinian selection within artificial computer systems has existed for more then 20 years, and the properties are documented all over scientific literature." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF CODE. “Self-replicating computer programs may make copies of themselves with small variations. One of these variations may make the self-replication action a little faster, so that it can make more daughter programs. If we assume a constant population size, more of the fast replicators will eventually be selected for, and you see an evolutionary change in the populations from slow to fast replicators." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

BOLD IDEA. "Natural selection or selection and amplification are part of evolution. Evolution can happen in any material substrate. The substrate does not need to be biochemical." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

"BUD DORMANCY prevents the outgrowth of buds, for instance in perennial plants during winter or in potato tubers, whereas seed dormancy prevents the germination of intact viable seeds during (temporary) favourable conditions in an otherwise unfavourable season. Both types of dormancy are characterized by very low metabolic activities and a temporary insensitivity to growth-promoting signals." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

LARGE AND BLURRING BORDERLINE. "The fact that all the dominant modern theories consider that life progressively emerged from some kind of proto-organisms, strongly grounds the hypothesis of the existence of a large and blurring borderline between living and non-living, were the inert progressively fades into the living." https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

TIMING CYCLES WITH SEASONS. "The duration of these different states widely varies between species and the timing of the transitions between them is highly regulated. This regulation ensures that the most vulnerable phases of the life cycle occur during favourable seasonal and environmental conditions. Two of the systems that control developmental transitions depend on dormancy mechanisms." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

PLANT CYCLES. "Plants are bound to the location where they have established themselves and require developmental adaptations to survive unfavourable environmental conditions. Most plants cycle between different developmental states, starting with the seed, followed by the seedling, the vegetative phase, and finally the reproductive phase." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

"SEED DORMANCY is an important component of plant fitness that causes a delay of germination until the arrival of a favourable growth season. Dormancy is a complex trait that is determined by genetic factors with a substantial environmental influence. Several of the tissues comprising a seed contribute to its final dormancy level. The roles of the plant hormones abscisic acid and gibberellin in the regulation of dormancy and germination have long been recognized." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn