title: Increasing Evolvability Considered as a Large-Scale Trend in Evolution
creator: Turney, Peter
subject: Evolution
subject: Theoretical Biology
description: Evolvability is the capacity to evolve. This paper introduces a simple computational model of evolvability and demonstrates that, under certain conditions, evolvability can increase indefinitely, even when there is no direct selection for evolvability. The model shows that increasing evolvability implies an accelerating evolutionary pace. It is suggested that the conditions for indefinitely increasing evolvability are satisfied in biological and cultural evolution. We claim that increasing evolvability is a large-scale trend in evolution. This hypothesis leads to testable predictions about biological and cultural evolution. 
contributor: Wu, Annie
date: 1999
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/2499/1/evolvability.pdf
identifier:   Turney, Peter  (1999) Increasing Evolvability Considered as a Large-Scale Trend in Evolution.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/2499/