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dc.contributor.authorTadić, Jovan M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKorenić, Andrejen_US
dc.contributor.authorPerović, Slobodanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-02T10:38:09Z-
dc.date.available2024-09-02T10:38:09Z-
dc.date.issued2024-
dc.identifier.issn2073-8994-
dc.identifier.urihttps://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/7267-
dc.description.abstractThe Game of Life (GoL) is a paradigmatic computer simulation that exhibits the emergence of complex properties of the whole from relatively simple sets of heuristic rules operating at lower organizational levels. Therefore, it is widely understood as a valuable tool for investigating global properties of evolutionary processes. Cognizant of refined concepts that emerged in recent debates on the central role of historical contingency (historicity) in evolution, we modify the original GoL rules by introducing an updating feedback loop and a probability factor that reflect the degree of historicity in pattern evolution as both stochastic path dependence and sensitivity to initial conditions. We examine this trait in simulations of the emergence and breaking of bilateral and radial symmetries commonly observed in the evolution of life, most prominently as evolving body plans. We show that the implementation of historicity parameters leads to a more realistic sequential and gradual alternating emergence and the breaking of new symmetries than the original set of rules. Apart from its more realistic representations of evolutionary processes, the new approach allows for easier exploration of the parameter space, demonstrates the sequential and gradual emergence and breaking of symmetries, and provides a publicly available and modular simulation tool. We discuss the exploratory potential of the modified GoL platform we designed as an extended thought experiment to study the parameter space defining the historicity of biological processes.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSymmetryen_US
dc.subjectGame of Life;en_US
dc.subjectBiological evolution;en_US
dc.subjectStochasticity;en_US
dc.subjectHistorical contingency;en_US
dc.subjectPath dependence;en_US
dc.subjectBody plans;en_US
dc.subjectSymmetry.en_US
dc.titleSymmetry and Historicity in the Game of Life: Modifying Rules to Simulate Evolutionary Dynamicsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/sym16081024-
dc.description.rankM22en_US
dc.description.impact2.7en_US
dc.description.startpage1024en_US
dc.relation.issn2073-8994en_US
dc.description.volume16en_US
dc.description.issue8en_US
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item.languageiso639-1en-
item.openairetypeArticle-
item.cerifentitytypePublications-
crisitem.author.deptChair of General Physiology and Biophysics-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0001-9476-7445-
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