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Computer Simulation of Biological Ageing - A Bird's-Eye View
Published in IOP PUBLISHING LTD
2003
Volume: 106
   
Pages: 19 - 20
Abstract
For living organisms, the process of ageing consists of acquiring good and bad genetic mutations, which increase and decrease (respectively) the survival probability. When a child is born, the hereditary mutations of the parents are transmitted to the offspring. Such stochastic processes seem to be amenable to computer simulation. Over the last 10 years, simulation studies of this sort have been done in different parts of the globe to explain ageing. The objective of these studies have been to attempt an explanation of demographic data and of natural phenomena like preference of nature to the process of sexual reproduction (in comparison to the process of asexual reproduction). Here we shall attempt to discuss briefly the principles and the results of these works, with an emphasis on what is called Penna bit-string model.
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JournalData powered by TypesetPhysica Scripta T
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ISSN0281-1847
Open AccessNo