Aug 7 – 11, 2023
Novo Nordisk Fonden
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Emerging diversity in a population of evolving dice

Aug 11, 2023, 1:00 PM
15m
Novo Nordisk Fonden

Novo Nordisk Fonden

Tuborg Havnevej 19, 2900 Hellerup

Speaker

Julius Kirkegaard (NBI)

Description

Exploiting the mathematical curiosity of intransitive dice, I will present a simple theoretical model for coevolution that captures scales ranging from the genome of the individual to the system-wide emergence of species diversity. In this simple model, evolving agents interact competitively in a closed system, in which both the dynamics of mutations and competitive advantage emerge directly from interpreting a genome as the sides of a die. The model demonstrates how simple ingredients can lead to a host of complex features, including sympatric speciation and the emergence of metastable states of finite diversity.

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