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Comment on "Self-organized criticality in living systems" by C. Adami

M. E. J. Newman·Simon M. Fraser·Kim Sneppen·William A. Tozier
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Following extensive numerical experiments, it has been suggested that the evolution of competing computer programs in artificial life simulations shows signs of being a self-organized critical process. The primary evidence for this claim comes from the distribution of the lifetimes of species in the simulations, which appears to follow a power law. We argue that, for a number of reasons, it is unlikely that the system is in fact at a critical point and suggest an alternative explanation for the power-law lifetime distribution.

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M. E. J. Newman, Simon M. Fraser, Kim Sneppen, William A. Tozier. 1997-02-04. Comment on "Self-organized criticality in living systems" by C. Adami. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0375-9601(97)00108-4

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