The ribosome challenge to the RNA world

JC Bowman, NV Hud, LD Williams - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2015 - Springer
An RNA World that predated the modern world of polypeptide and polynucleotide is one of
the most widely accepted models in origin of life research. In this model, the translation …

Evolution of the ribosome at atomic resolution

AS Petrov, CR Bernier, C Hsiao, AM Norris… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
The origins and evolution of the ribosome, 3–4 billion years ago, remain imprinted in the
biochemistry of extant life and in the structure of the ribosome. Processes of ribosomal RNA …

Maternal death and offspring fitness in multiple wild primates

MN Zipple, J Altmann, FA Campos, M Cords… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Primate offspring often depend on their mothers well beyond the age of weaning, and
offspring that experience maternal death in early life can suffer substantial reductions in …

Comparative genomics and evolution of avian specialized traits

L Wu, X Jiao, D Zhang, Y Cheng, G Song… - Current …, 2021 - benthamdirect.com
Genomic data are important for understanding the origin and evolution of traits. Under the
context of rapidly develo** of sequencing technologies and more widely available …

Fitness distance correlation and mixed search strategy for differential evolution

W Li, X Meng, Y Huang - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
The fitness landscape is a theory applied to the evolutionary dynamics of biological
evolution to explain the behavior of evolutionary algorithms in the solution of optimization …

Defining locality as a problem difficulty measure in genetic programming

E Galván-López, J McDermott, M O'Neill… - … and Evolvable Machines, 2011 - Springer
A map** is local if it preserves neighbourhood. In Evolutionary Computation, locality is
generally described as the property that neighbouring genotypes correspond to …

Information landscapes

Y Borenstein, R Poli - Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
We give a new interpretation to the concept of" landscape". This allows us to develop a new
theoretical model to study search algorithms. Particularly, we are able to quantify the amount …

Dynamic fitness landscape analysis

H Richter - Evolutionary computation for dynamic optimization …, 2013 - Springer
Solving optimization problems with time varying objective functions by methods of
evolutionary computation can be grounded on the theoretical framework of dynamic fitness …

Landscape analysis of a class of NP-hard binary packing problems

K Alyahya, JE Rowe - Evolutionary computation, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
This article presents an exploratory landscape analysis of three NP-hard combinatorial
optimisation problems: the number partitioning problem, the binary knapsack problem, and …

Dynamic landscape models of coevolutionary games

H Richter - BioSystems, 2017 - Elsevier
Players of coevolutionary games may update not only their strategies but also their networks
of interaction. Based on interpreting the payoff of players as fitness, dynamic landscape …