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1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

   Punctuated equilibrium and criticality in a simple model of evolution

   Bak and Sneppen · Physical Review Letters · 1993

   The paper introduces a simple, robust model of an ecology of interacting species that self-organizes into a critical state with avalanches of change and evolves faster than non-cooperative scenarios.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' simple model of interacting species, evolution settles into a critical state with bursts of change of all sizes, resembling punctuated equilibrium.“The model self-organizes into a critical steady state with intermittent coevolutionary avalanches of all sizes; i.e., it exhibits ``punctuated equilibrium'' behavior.”